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language
eng
Attribute
case report
Author
Yasuda Toshihiro
Description
An elderly woman in her late 80s was living with her husband and her son in his mid-60s. The woman had urinary incontinence. Her son took her to the bathroom, showered her in the bathtub with her clothes on, and then left her inside the bathtub. Five days after on a hot summer day, the woman was found dead inside the waterless bathtub. A forensic autopsy was performed 2 days after the discovery of her death on suspicion of the son’s negligence as a guardian. The woman was underweight, and the low BMI value in addition to the lack of sufficient subcutaneous fat and musculature, had an effect on the woman’s vulnerability to hypothermia. Furthermore, the woman’s clothes were drenched. We believe that these factors contributed greatly to her susceptibility to hypothermia. Examining all of the environmental factors and autopsy results, the cause of death was concluded to be hypothermia.
Subject
Hypothermia
Summer
Bathtub
Elderly
Journal Title
Shimane journal of medical science
Volume
31
Issue
1
Start Page
25
End Page
28
ISSN
03865959
ISSN(Online)
24332410
Published Date
2014-12-01
NCID
AA00841586
Publisher
Shimane University Faculty of Medicine
NII Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper
Format
PDF
Text Version
出版社版
Gyoseki ID
e25142
OAI-PMH Set
Faculty of Medicine
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