{"title":"突尼斯苏塞的高空坠落死亡事件:对 141 例法医尸检病例的研究。","authors":"Souhir Chelly, Abir Mtira, Sarra Gharesellaoui, Majed Hassine, Maher Jedidi, Mohamed Mahjoub, Tasnim Masmoudi","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Falls from great heights constitute a violent trauma that can lead to death. This represents a suspicious death, leading to initiate legal proceedings with in particular the practice of an autopsy.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>to determine the features of victims of falls from height and relations between medico-legal form of the death, the height of the fall and the nature of traumatic injuries Methods: A retrospective study about 141 cases of death after fall from great height. Data were collected at the Legal Medicine Department of the Farhat Hached University Hospital in Sousse (Tunisia) over a period of 14 years from 2007 to 2020.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The average age of the victims was 37±12.8 years with a sex ratio of 6.05. Half of them were day laborers. The majority had no history of psychiatric illness (91.5%). The majority of victims (41.8%) fell from a height of 3 to 6 meters. Regarding injuries, rib fractures (52.4) were predominant, especially on the right side followed by skull fractures (31.2%). A significant difference in the prevalence of rib cage lesions in the groups over 9 meters in height (p<0.05) was found. The lesions of the lower limbs were proportional to the increase in the height of the fall. Deaths were accidental in 80.8% and suicides in 13.5%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In cases of high falls, a forensic autopsy is essential to make a complete evaluation of the injuries, to search a correlation between severity of injuries and height of the fall and finally to orientate towards the medico legal form of the fall.</p>","PeriodicalId":38818,"journal":{"name":"Tunisie Medicale","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11261503/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Fatal falls from great height in Sousse (Tunisia): Study of 141 medicolegal autopsy cases.\",\"authors\":\"Souhir Chelly, Abir Mtira, Sarra Gharesellaoui, Majed Hassine, Maher Jedidi, Mohamed Mahjoub, Tasnim Masmoudi\",\"doi\":\"\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Falls from great heights constitute a violent trauma that can lead to death. 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A significant difference in the prevalence of rib cage lesions in the groups over 9 meters in height (p<0.05) was found. The lesions of the lower limbs were proportional to the increase in the height of the fall. 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Fatal falls from great height in Sousse (Tunisia): Study of 141 medicolegal autopsy cases.
Introduction: Falls from great heights constitute a violent trauma that can lead to death. This represents a suspicious death, leading to initiate legal proceedings with in particular the practice of an autopsy.
Aims: to determine the features of victims of falls from height and relations between medico-legal form of the death, the height of the fall and the nature of traumatic injuries Methods: A retrospective study about 141 cases of death after fall from great height. Data were collected at the Legal Medicine Department of the Farhat Hached University Hospital in Sousse (Tunisia) over a period of 14 years from 2007 to 2020.
Results: The average age of the victims was 37±12.8 years with a sex ratio of 6.05. Half of them were day laborers. The majority had no history of psychiatric illness (91.5%). The majority of victims (41.8%) fell from a height of 3 to 6 meters. Regarding injuries, rib fractures (52.4) were predominant, especially on the right side followed by skull fractures (31.2%). A significant difference in the prevalence of rib cage lesions in the groups over 9 meters in height (p<0.05) was found. The lesions of the lower limbs were proportional to the increase in the height of the fall. Deaths were accidental in 80.8% and suicides in 13.5%.
Conclusion: In cases of high falls, a forensic autopsy is essential to make a complete evaluation of the injuries, to search a correlation between severity of injuries and height of the fall and finally to orientate towards the medico legal form of the fall.