Diagnosis of arterial gas embolism in SCUBA diving: modification suggestion of autopsy techniques and experience in eight cases
| العنوان: | Diagnosis of arterial gas embolism in SCUBA diving: modification suggestion of autopsy techniques and experience in eight cases |
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| المؤلفون: | Fernando Aguirre, Maria T. Serrando, Ana Carrera, Francisco Reina, Pere Boadas-Vaello, Josep Maria Casadesús |
| المصدر: | Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology. 14:18-25 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Resuscitation, Forensic pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Diving, Autopsy, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Decompression sickness, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Embolism, Air, Humans, 030216 legal & forensic medicine, Aged, Asphyxia, Arterial dissection, business.industry, Arteries, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Scuba diving, Arterial gas embolism, Barotrauma, Female, Radiology, medicine.symptom, business, human activities |
| الوصف: | The purpose of this study was to suggest modifications of autopsy techniques in order to improve post-mortem diagnosis of arterial gas embolism (AGE) based on multidisciplinary investigation of SCUBA diving fatalities. Five adult human cadavers from the voluntary donation program of the Human Anatomy Laboratory, and eight judicial autopsied bodies of SCUBA divers from the Forensic Pathology Service were assessed. Before performing any autopsies, we accessed the diving plan and the divers' profiles for each case. We then introduced a new dissection procedure that included identification, isolation, and manipulation of carotid, vertebral and thoracic arterial systems. The dissected vascular structures that allowed optimall isolation of the systemic arterial circulation were identified and ligated. In three of the eight judicial cases, we had a strongly suggestive history of arterial gas embolism following pulmonary barotrauma (PBt/AGE). In these cases, the additional arterial dissection allowed us to clearly diagnose AGE in one of them. The autopsy of the rest of the cases showed other causes of death such as asphyxia by drowning and heart attack. In all cases we were able to reject decompression sickness, and in some of them we showed the presence of artefacts secondary to decomposition and resuscitation maneuvers. These results allow us to suggest a specific autopsy technique divided into four steps, aimed at confirming or excluding some evidence of dysbaric disorders according to a re-enactment of the incident. We have demonstrated the presence of large volumes of intravascular air, which is typical of PBt/AGE. |
| تدمد: | 1556-2891 1547-769X |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::40ec710948f82951e797fc2d0fdcdceeTest https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-018-9951-4Test |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....40ec710948f82951e797fc2d0fdcdcee |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15562891 1547769X |
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