Autopsy Findings: Postmortem Drug Redistribution and Other Artifacts

Olaf H. Drummer

doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-21441-7.00023-6

Autopsy Findings: Postmortem Drug Redistribution and Other Artifacts

Olaf H. Drummer

Department of Forensic Medicine

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Abstract

In the past fewdecades significant advances have been made in our understanding of what happens to drugs and their concentrations in blood and other specimens collected for a medicolegal death investigation. This chapter reviews various artifacts and processes known to occur after death that affect drug concentrations, with an emphasis on postmortem drug redistribution and its implications for interpreting analytical results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	386-390
Number of pages	5
Volume	1
Edition	3rd
ISBN (Electronic)	9780443214424
ISBN (Print)	9780443214417
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-21441-7.00023-6
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

Autopsy
Drug analysis
Forensic pathology
Forensic toxicology
Interpretation
Postmortem artifacts
Postmortem redistribution

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Autopsy Findings: Postmortem Drug Redistribution and Other Artifacts

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