Medicolegal Consideration of Sudden Unexpected Death

, Jung Jin Yun

Original Article

Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1984;8(Suppl DB Error: syntax error):27-34.

National Institute of Scientific Investigation

Abstract

The author reviewed the l,609 sudden unexpected death(SLID) cases autopsied at National Institute of Scientific Investigation from 1979 to 1983 for the purpose to provide basic material in solving medical, social and legal problems of SUD The author arrived at the conclusion as follows by analysis of SUD cases according to sex, season, age, place, occupation, motive, and cause of death. 1. Male to female ratio was 3 : 1. 2. Spring was highest in seasonal incidence, and the incidence of other seasons was not significantly variable. 3. In distribution of age, in male, 30s, 20s, 40s and 50s in sequence but in female, 20s, 40s, 30s and 50s in sequence. 4. Home was the most frequent place of SUD, followed by street, work, hospital and ect. 5. The places of occurrence had some relation with victim's occupations. 6. Among the motives of SUD, overexertion was the prime cause, and the next was medical care. Drinking, trauma, psychiatric stress, physical exercise and coitus were also important factors 7. Heart diseases, intracranial bleeding and pulmonary edema were the common causes of SUD.