title: [The forensic medical expertise of the victims of large-scale fires].
abstract: The difficulties of present-day forensic medical expert evaluation of poisonings in fires are explained by exposure of man to highly toxic compounds that form during burning of polymers. Analyzing forensic medical expert evaluations of a large number of victims dead in a large-scale fire, the authors emphasize the necessity of measuring not only dead people's blood levels of HbCO, but of some other toxic combustion products that may exert combined effects on human body. The authors think it desirable that criteria of forensic medical evaluation of combined poisoning in fire be defined.
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Popov
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Babakhanian
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Bushuev
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Katkov
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis / Q000506:poisoning; D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods; D002056:Burns / Q000473:pathology*; D002249:Carbon Monoxide Poisoning / Q000473:pathology; D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia; D015208:Smoke Inhalation Injury / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
vernacular_title: Sudebno-meditsinskaia ékspertiza pogibshikh pri krupnomasshtabnykh pozharakh.