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Forensic Medicine
Researchers at Ghent University, Department of Forensic Medicine target forensic medicine
April 5th, 2008
A report, 'Hospital bed related fatalities: a review,' is newly published data in Medicine, Science, and the Law. "All medico-legal cases of unexpected death during hospitalisation or accommodation in rest or nursing homes, which were investigated at the Department of Forensic Medicine during a 30-year-period, have been reviewed. In the majority of cases, the fatal outcome was bedrail or restraint related, but falls out of bed or from a patient hoist lift can also trigger a death," investigators in Gent, Belgium report. "As expected, the manner of death was mainly accidental. In about 70% of cases, mechanical asphyxia (such as smothering and thoraco-abdominal...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-05)
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