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Medico-legal problems to injury by cold are of principal concern to the medical examiner.
If an exposed person is fatigued, intoxicated, or psychotic he may not be aware of the peril of hypothermia once cutaneous discomfort has given way to cutaneous numbness. It is not necessary that the temperature be so low as to cause freezing.
By the time that the body temperature has dropped below 30 °C , the victim is unlike to make any effective attempts at self prevention.
Postmortem examination of the body of a person dead of hypothermia is not likely to disclosed any pathological changes that can be considered characteristic of the effect of cold. |
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