International Journal of Medical Toxicology & Legal Medicine

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  • Year: 1999
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 1

Estimation of postmortem production and loss of ethanol in blood with respect to its duration of storage at room temperature

  • Author:
  • R.K. Singh1, Heeresh Chandra2
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 1 to 4

1Deptt. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, M.G.M. Medical College - Indore, (M.P.)

2Deptt. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology & Medicolegal Institute, Bhopal, (M.P.).

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Abstract

With the increase in the prevalence rate of alcohol consumption and its multifacet pathological effects and also because the postmortem variance of ethanol concentration recorded from its antemortem values in the animals and the human corpses, due to its postmortem production/loss to a large extent, this study has been carried out to estimate the amount of alcohol preserved in blood stored under our environmental conditions for different durations to find out its antemortem concentration, at the moment of death.

Such data are available but mostly of foreign conditions which cannot be followed as such in our country as the external environmental conditions and biological behaviour vary to a large extent.

Keywords

Postmortem production loss of ethanol, Blood Samples, Environmental Conditions, Human Corpses, Fermentation