Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to identify isolated acute cyanide poison
cases and to identify reported signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings. Methods: We …

The decomposition of a body is inseparably associated with the release of several types of
odors. This phenomenon has been used in the training of sniffer dogs for decades. The odor …

A body undergoes complex and intricate changes after death. These post mortem changes
depend on a diverse range of variables. Factors such as the ambient temperature, season …

Purpose Forensic verification of cyanide (CN) poisoning by direct CN analysis in
postmortem blood is challenging due to instability of CN in biological samples. CN …

This is an overview of medicolegal death investigation and death certification. Postmortem
toxicological analysis, particularly for ethanol and drugs of abuse, plays a large role in the …

A new method is reported for the simultaneous derivatization and extraction of free cyanide
in biological samples using home-made hollow fiber-protected headspace liquid-phase …

A new method is described for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of cyanide, a very
short‐acting and powerful toxic agent, in human whole blood. It involves the conversion of …

aminothiazoline-4-carboxylic acid (ATCA) is a minor metabolite of cyanide and is suggested
to be a promising biomarker for cyanide exposure due to its specificity to cyanide …

Suicide is a significant form of unnatural death and must be differentiated as such from other
violent manners of death (homicide, accident), but also from unexpected deaths due to …

In the investigation of sudden death in adults, channelopathies, such as long QT syndrome,
have risen to the fore in the minds of forensic pathologists in recent years. Examples of these …