Is it time to update the Recommendations of the Polish Society of Forensic Medicine and Criminology on the collection of post-mortem material for toxicological analysis?

Skowronek, Rafał; Zawadzki, Marcin

doi:10.5114/amsik.2018.83097

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“…For example, in Poland, this should be done according to the Recommendations of the Polish Society of Forensic Medicine and Criminology on the collection of autopsy specimens for toxicological testing [3]. These guidelines date back to 2012 and have not been updated since, despite suggestions that they are now outdated and need to be revised [4]. It is also worth mentioning that there is a large amount of ongoing research into the potential use of alternative biological specimens in toxicological analysis, including although not limited to the use of costal cartilage in the post-mortem diagnosis of ethyl alcohol intoxication [5].…”

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Assessing the applicability of cerebrospinal fluid collected from the spinal cord for the determination of ethyl alcohol in post-mortem toxicology

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Skowronek

Pawlas

2022

Forensic Sci Med Pathol

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This paper presents the results of a study on the applicability of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collected from the spinal canal in the post-mortem determination of ethyl alcohol. The present study reviewed data of autopsy cases (n = 45), in which ethyl alcohol was detected in CSF using gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector (HS-GC-FID), to investigate ethyl alcohol concentrations in CSF, compared with blood. As a result of statistical analysis of the obtained data, a high positive correlation was found between blood ethanol concentration and cerebrospinal fluid collected from the spinal canal ethanol concentration. The Pearson correlation coefficient was statistically highly significant (p < 0.001) (r = 0.9503). The data obtained allowed us to conclude that cerebrospinal fluid collected from the spinal canal can be collected during an autopsy as an alternative biological specimen to assess the ethanol content. Cerebrospinal fluid collected from the spinal canal can corroborate and lend credibility to the results obtained for blood and, in special cases, when blood is drawn from putrefied bodies and may even be a superior specimen to blood for assessing ethyl alcohol intoxication status.

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