Journal
FORENSIC SCIENCE MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 510-514Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-020-00277-6
Keywords
Forensic autopsy; Disaster victim identification (DVI); Death scene investigation; Blunt trauma; Casper's sign
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- Projekt DEAL
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We describe and discuss the forensic mission after the terrorist attack on the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin on 19th December 2016, focusing on co-operation with police authorities, and the injury patterns of the deceased. Even after massive blunt trauma, severe injury patterns are often unrecognizable by visual inspection of the body (Casper's sign), which could instill false security among rescuers or, as happened on the Breitscheidplatz, may lead to distress or even trauma in rescue personnel when obviously primarily uninjured patients die suddenly.
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