Sedative and hypnotic drugs—Fatal and non-fatal reference blood concentrations
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Sedative and hypnotic drugs--fatal and non-fatal reference blood concentrations.
In postmortem investigations of fatal intoxications it is often challenging to determine which drug/s caused the death. To improve the interpretation of postmortem blood concentrations of sedative and hypnotic drugs and/or clonazepam, all medico-legal autopsies in Sweden - where these drugs had been detected in femoral vein blood during 1992-2006 - were identified in the databases of the Nation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Forensic Science International
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0379-0738
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.01.005