[Acute and chronic effect of alcohol--a long-term problem in forensic medicine autopsies].

Abstract

Influence of the acute and chronic alcohol influence in connection with the sudden unexpected death is very high. Between 1986 and 1990 in 949 death cases out of 2402 autopsies carried out in the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Essen the death could be related either to chronic alcohol abuses or to an acute alcoholisation. The influence of alcohol in the various kinds of death is described.