Abstract:

Although solid food aspiration is rare, it is more common in people who are under the influence of alcohol or medication and in patients in coma with disability in the functions of the central nervous system. Detection of a small amount of food in the respiratory tract during autopsy does not show real vital aspiration due to agonal or early postmortem transitions. This 10-year retrospective study examined the records covering the years 1995-2006 of the Morg Medical Institute's Department of Justice and presented the data of the 21 male and 4 female facts of age 23 and 78 (45.43±14.61) which were as a cause of death as a result of judicial investigation and postmortem studies. Thirteen of them were found at the scene without any witness. All deaths, except a murder, are accidental. Toxic studies in 7 cases identified blood alcohol levels between 161 and 339 mg/dL, and in 5 cases morphine derivatives, benzodiazepine and barbituric acid derivatives, toluene and acetone derivatives. In 14 cases food, in 3 cases garlic, in 7 cases stomach content and in 1 case the gland part was aspirated. In aspiration events, the evidence of the story, vomiting in clothes, close surroundings, toxic examinations is in no way as important as the findings of autopsy.

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