Azmak Derya
Department of Forensic Medicine, Trakya University, Medical Faculty, Edirne, Turkey.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2006 Jun;27(2):134-44. doi: 10.1097/01.paf.0000221082.72186.2e.
An increasing death rate as a result of violence constitutes a large group in medicolegal autopsies. Specially, deaths due to asphyxia are one of the most important causes in violence deaths. During the 21-year period from January 1984 to October 2004, there were 134 asphyxial deaths autopsied by the Department of Forensic Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. Asphyxial deaths comprise 15.7% of all forensic autopsies; 20.8% of the cases are aged between 30 and 39 years, and the average age was 41.9 years. Males constitute 79.8% of all the cases. The most frequent method of asphyxiation death is hanging (56 cases, 41.8%), followed by drowning (30.5%) and carbon monoxide poisoning (8.2%). More violent methods, such as ligature or manual strangulations, constitute 2.9% and 2.3% of all asphyxial deaths, respectively. Although it was varying according to the methods of asphyxiation, suicide was found to be the manner of death in the majority of the cases.
暴力导致的死亡率上升在法医尸检中占很大比例。特别是，窒息死亡是暴力死亡的最重要原因之一。在1984年1月至2004年10月的21年期间，土耳其埃迪尔内特拉凯亚大学法医学系对134例窒息死亡病例进行了尸检。窒息死亡占所有法医尸检的15.7%；20.8%的病例年龄在30至39岁之间，平均年龄为41.9岁。男性占所有病例的79.8%。最常见的窒息死亡方式是上吊（56例，41.8%），其次是溺水（30.5%）和一氧化碳中毒（8.2%）。更暴力的方式，如勒死或手动扼杀，分别占所有窒息死亡的2.9%和2.3%。尽管根据窒息方式不同而有所差异，但在大多数病例中，死亡方式被认定为自杀。
