We have performed a systematic review of sudden and unexplained deaths in the first 24 hours following police detention in Spain within the last 10 years. We searched for “death following police detention” or equivalent expressions in general newspaper and agency search engines. We found 60 deaths without an apparent cause. Only 1 (1.7%) case was in a female who died after approximately 20 hours of detention. This percentage contrasts with the fact that women represent 10 % of all detentions.1 Fifty-nine cases were of young men with a median age of 33.5 (8.7) (range, 18-58) years, without a history of cardiovascular disease. Out of those detained, 17 (28.8%) had a medical history (1
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<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been steadily increasi...
Background: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden unexpected event, from a cardiac cause, that occu...
Introduction: Sudden death is a type of death that occurs in less than an hour from the onset of cli...
Background: Although morbidity is high in prisoners compared with the general population, uncertaint...
Cardiac Arrest (CA) is a major health problem, due to short and long-term sequelæ and to associ-ated...
Background and aims. The detainees ’ right to healthcare is granted by laws, in accordance with EU d...
Background: and goal: The Police is sometimes confronted with the death of a subject during physical...
I. General Statement: The review of my own 3,250 case -records of necropsies for the Medico -Legal D...
4In the past 20 years, cardiovascular mortality has decreased in highincome countries in response to...
Background The problem of sudden death in the young is currently debated and measures for prevention...
Most of the data reported on sudden cardiac death has been from studies of Anglo-Saxon patients. We ...
Aims To study the incidence and aetiology of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in 1- to 35-year-olds in Swe...
Little is understood about the incidence of sudden death, its underlying pathophysiology, or its act...
Introduction: Sudden, unexpected arrest-related death (ARD) has been associated with drug abuse, ext...
Background: Sudden death among military recruits is a rare but devastating occurrence. Because exten...
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been steadily increasi...
Background: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden unexpected event, from a cardiac cause, that occu...
Introduction: Sudden death is a type of death that occurs in less than an hour from the onset of cli...
Background: Although morbidity is high in prisoners compared with the general population, uncertaint...