Asphyxia and Drowning

Jay Dix, M.D. is Medical Examiner for Boone County, Missouri, and Associate Professor of Pathology/Chief of Forensic Pathology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia. Michael Graham, M.D. is the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of St. Louis, Missouri; Professor of Pathology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center; and Co-Director of its Division of Forensic Pathology. Randy Hanzlick, M.D. is Chief Medical Examiner for Fulton County, Georgia; Associate Professor of Forensic Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta; and Forensic Pathologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.

• Preface; Asphyxia and Drowning; Introduction; Mechanical Asphyxia; Vitiated Atmosphere; Smothering; Choking; Airway Swelling and Obstruction; Neck Compression; Hanging; Strangulation; Manual Strangulation; igature Strangulation; Yoking; Chest Compression; Postural (Positional) Asphyxia; Miscellaneous; Chemical Asphyxia; Carbon Monoxide; Cyanide; Drowning

"…volumes are appropriate for the target readership of death investigators, law enforcement officers, and attorneys. Physicians-in-training, in such specialties as Pathology, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery would benefit from careful reading of these books…I anticipate that the remaining volumes in this series will prove equally useful."es are appropriate for the target readership of death investigators, law enforcement officers, and attorneys. Physicians-in-training, in such specialties as Pathology, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery would benefit from careful reading of these books…I anticipate that the remaining volumes in this series will prove equally useful."