• Legal medicine · Sep 2015

    Detection of carbon monoxide poisoning that occurred before a house fire in three cases.

    • Toru Oshima, Kosei Yonemitsu, Ako Sasao, Maki Ohtani, and Sohtaro Mimasaka.
    • Department of Forensic Sciences, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Hondo 1-1-1, Akita 010-8543, Japan. Electronic address: tooshima@med.akita-u.ac.jp.
    • Leg Med (Tokyo). 2015 Sep 1; 17 (5): 371-5.

    AbstractIn our institutes, we perform a quantitative evaluation of volatile hydrocarbons in post-mortem blood in all fatal fire-related cases using headspace gas chromatography mass spectrometry. We previously reported that benzene concentrations in the blood were positively correlated with carbon monoxide-hemoglobin (CO-Hb) concentrations in fire-related deaths. Here, we present 3 cases in which benzene concentrations in the blood were not correlated with CO-Hb concentrations. A high CO-Hb concentration without a hydrocarbon component, such as benzene, indicates that the deceased inhaled carbon monoxide that was not related to the smoke from the fire. Comparing volatile hydrocarbons with CO-Hb concentrations can provide more information about the circumstances surrounding fire-related deaths. We are currently convinced that this is the best method to detect if carbon monoxide poisoning occurred before a house fire started. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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