title: Questionable traumatic deaths and their assessment.
abstract: It is often difficult to assess cases in which the circumstances strongly indicate traumatic cause of death, while the autopsy reveals no life-threatening injuries. Such cases can be divided into three groups: 1) death explained by heart disease and emotional stress and/or physical exertion; 2) deaths by suspected traumatic vagal inhibition in which another cause of death is found or the cause of death remains obscure, sometimes depending on incomplete postmortem investigation; and 3) death established by autopsy, but difficult to ascertain if there is a connection between the cause of death and the trauma.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D005082:Physical Exertion; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000401:mortality; D013548:Sweden; D061223:Vagus Nerve Injuries; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*