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- Title
Caracterización y hallazgos patológicos forenses en adolescentes suicidas en Pasto (2015-2019).
- Authors
Chávez Muriel, Iván Alexánder; Benavides Madroñer, Carlos Geovanni
- Abstract
This short article refers to suicide, death resulting from the intentional action of an individual to harm himself. In the case of adolescent homicides, it has been evidenced by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences that it is a public health problem, and that even if the cause of death is obvious, for the forensic expert the correlation between the pathophysiological mechanisms that result from suicide and the autopsy findings may not be so indisputable, in terms of the alteration of bodily functions when interpreted. Consequently, the purpose is to determine the characteristics and forensic pathological findings in suicide victims aged 12 to 17 years who were admitted to Medicina Legal, case study: municipality of Pasto in the years 2015-2019. It is a descriptive cross-sectional case study that requires the documentary analysis of the information recorded in the folders of the suicides. Preliminarily, it is inferred that the cause of death generating mechanical asphyxia through the mechanism of hanging together with poisoning are characteristics of suicidal acts of adolescents in Pasto.
- Publication
Advocatus, 2021, Vol 18, Issue 37, p57
- ISSN
0124-0102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18041/0124-0102/a.37.8171