[On the relevance of examining the internal organs for the presence of diatom plankton after drowning at sea].

Q4 Medicine

Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.17116/sudmed20246706148

V M Antipov, I A Tolmachev, O S Lavrukova, A V Antipov, I Yu Kostikov

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Abstract

Objective: To establish the relevance of examining the internal organs for the presence of diatom plankton after drowning in the waters of the White Sea.

Material and methods: We studied the biological material (fragments of lungs and kidneys) from the corpses of people found in the waters of the Kemskaya Bay and Onega Bay of the White Sea and waters from different areas of the White Sea for the presence of diatoms.

Results: In all cases of drowning in the waters of the White Sea (in the area of the city of Belomorsk and the Kem skerries), marine and freshwater diatoms were found in the lungs and kidneys of the deceased in quantities sufficient to diagnose death from drowning in water. No diatoms were found in the unmixed waters of the White Sea. However, marine and freshwater diatoms were found in mixed waters (mouths of the Nizhniy Vyg River and the 19th lock of the White Sea-Baltic Canal). Desalination of seawater in the coastal zones of the White Sea reduces its salinity to isotonic values and even lowers it. This promotes the penetration of marine and freshwater diatoms contained in the water into the bloodstream of victims dying from drowning.

Conclusions: The obtained results justify the relevance of examining the internal organs in cases of drowning in the coastal waters of the White Sea.

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目的：探讨在白海海域溺亡后进行体内浮游硅藻检查的相关性。材料和方法：我们研究了在白海的凯姆斯卡亚湾和奥涅加湾水域以及白海不同地区的水域中发现的人的尸体上的生物材料（肺和肾脏碎片），以确定硅藻的存在。结果：在白海水域（别洛莫尔斯克市和凯姆斯克里地区）的所有溺水病例中，在死者的肺部和肾脏中发现了海洋和淡水硅藻，其数量足以诊断为溺水死亡。在白海未混合的海水中没有发现硅藻。然而，在混合水域（下城维格河河口和白海-波罗的海运河第19水闸）中发现了海洋和淡水硅藻。对白海沿岸地区的海水进行淡化，使其盐度降至等渗值，甚至降低。这促进了水中所含的海洋和淡水硅藻渗透到溺水死亡的受害者的血液中。结论：所得结果证明了在白海沿岸水域对溺水病例进行内脏检查的相关性。

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Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa Medicine-Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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期刊介绍： The journal is concerned with the theory and practice of forensic medicine - the problems of thanatology, traumatology, toxicology, serology, forensic obstetrics, forensic dentistry, forensic psychiatry, forensic chemistry, physicotechnical methods of investigation, history of forensic medicine and some problems of criminology and legal laws related to forensic medicine. It publishes original studies by Russian authors, casuistry surveys, abstracts and reviews of Russian and foreign literature, scientific information, reports on scientific conferences.