DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING DEATH CAUSED BY ACUTE POISONING WITH ETHYL ALCOHOL, GENERAL ORGANISM COOLING OR MECHANICAL INJURY Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying out morphological examination of viscera, determining alcohol content in blood and urine with chemical test, additionally carrying out morphometric suprarenal gland examination with endocrinocytes nuclei area in zona fasciculata of the left suprarenal gland being measured in mcm², and semi-quantitative 4-level score analysis for determining the left suprarenal gland zona fasciculata degree of filing with blood. Probabilities of assigning a death case to injuries-incompatible-with-life group P1, to general organism cooling group P2, to ethyl alcohol poisoning group P3 are calculated from a formula. Relations of P1>P2 and P1>P3 taking place, death caused by mechanical injury is to be diagnosed. P3>P2 and P3>P2 taking place, death caused by acute ethyl alcohol poisoning is to be diagnosed. P2>P1 and P2>P3 being the case, death caused by general organism cooling is to be diagnosed.

EFFECT: high accuracy of prediction.

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