Journal of Forensic Medicine

Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, NIIMS, Greater Noida, NIU Hostels, NIIMS Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Case Series   
  A Series of Fatal Choking Death in Elderly
  Author(s): Sunil Kumar Duchania* and Shweta Garg
  
  Sudden death due to foreign body obstruction of upper airways often termed Cafe Coronary has received considerable attention in the last two decades. However, there are no previous reports of Electrocardiographic records of the Victims or survivors of the condition. Death due to accidental choking is observed in all age group but extremes of age are more vulnerable. It is usually due to a foreign body, but it can be caused by the products of the disease (or violence) or by anatomical changes due to disease. People experience choking by accidental slipping of food bolus in their respiratory tract in their daily lives. Most of the people recover from it but a few experience obstruction of the respiratory tract that cannot be cleared and may prove fatal. Accidental choking is the commonest manner of choking. In the present case report a case of death due to chokin.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/jfm.2022.7.173

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