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2009
Deaths due to the passage of electric current through the body are most often accidental, although suicides and homicides may occasionally occur. Electrical energy represents electron flow, or current, between two points with different potentials, measured in voltage.
Byard, R., Wick, R.
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Deaths due to the passage of electric current through the body are most often accidental, although suicides and homicides may occasionally occur. Electrical energy represents electron flow, or current, between two points with different potentials, measured in voltage.
Byard, R., Wick, R.
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Suicidal electrocution in a bathtub
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 1985A case of suicidal electrocution in a filled bathtub is presented with a discussion of the mechanism of electrocution in water. A modern safety device, the Ground Fault Interruptor Circuit, is also described.
Werner U. Spitz +2 more
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Science & Justice, 1995
A wife was found dead by her husband, lying in a tiled bath on a cast concrete floor, with a 1 kW electric radiator immersed in the bath water. Initially the case was treated as accidental death, but the police charged the husband with murder on the grounds that his wife could not have died in the manner he described.
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A wife was found dead by her husband, lying in a tiled bath on a cast concrete floor, with a 1 kW electric radiator immersed in the bath water. Initially the case was treated as accidental death, but the police charged the husband with murder on the grounds that his wife could not have died in the manner he described.
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Medicine, Science and the Law, 1990
Two cases of homicidal electrocutions are reported. A woman and her young son were killed in 1980 by her ex-husband. The criminal used electrical force as a method of killing. He wound flexible conducting wires around the limbs of the victims and switched on the current.
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Two cases of homicidal electrocutions are reported. A woman and her young son were killed in 1980 by her ex-husband. The criminal used electrical force as a method of killing. He wound flexible conducting wires around the limbs of the victims and switched on the current.
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Attempted homicide by electrocution
International Journal of Legal Medicine, 1998Attempted homicide by the application of a high-voltage, low-amperage current is reported in an elderly male. An electrician constructed an apparatus and applied the current to wet towels placed on the abdomen of the victim sleeping next door. The attempt was unsuccessful and resulted in burns only. The victim was hospitalised and died 3 weeks later. A
Heidi Pfeiffer, Bernd Karger
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Electrocution by Street Lighting
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1984Abstract Four lethal and one nonlethal electrocutions from street lighting equipment are described. These cases have in common old installations, metal light poles, wet environment, 480-V power sources, and intact fuses. Identification of causative factors may permit future accommodation in design to reduce risk.
Joseph H. Davis, Erik K. Mitchell
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Unusual Self-Electrocution Simulating Judicial Electrocution by an Adolescent
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, 2008Electrocution is one of the rarest modes of suicide. In this case, one school going adolescent committed suicide by electrocution using bare electric wire. This is a rare case of suicidal death by applying live wires around the wrists, simulating the act of judicial electrocution. He positioned himself on armed chair and placed the nude wire loops from
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Controlling the electrocution hazard in the hospital
Critical Care Medicine, 1972The hospitalized patient is in jeopardy from the electrical devices that surround or are attached to him. He is at a special risk because he is frequently grounded by monitoring devices and his protective skin barrier breached. Poorly designed electrical devices and inadequate or improper grounding of the hospital electrical system or of the equipment ...
Bryan Parker +2 more
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Electrocution in the Operating Room
Anesthesiology, 1973The manner in which a patient sustained an electrical shock injury from improperly wired equipment during the course of an operation was described in order to acquaint others with a potentially hazardous situation. A patient requiring surgical treatment had the ground plate of an electrocautery unit placed under her buttocks and the electrodes of an ...
David H. Atkin, Louis R. Orkin
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1977
Hospitals have become safer from electric shock accidents, but physicians who delegate to the electronics experts full responsibility in this regard will be shirking an obligation. Every physician should be involved both in programs to prevent these accidents in medical settings and in efforts to educate the public concerning the risk of electrocution ...
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Hospitals have become safer from electric shock accidents, but physicians who delegate to the electronics experts full responsibility in this regard will be shirking an obligation. Every physician should be involved both in programs to prevent these accidents in medical settings and in efforts to educate the public concerning the risk of electrocution ...
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