Pathomorphological Signs of Acute Alcohol Poisoning

Abstract

The presented article contains structured information on the issues of forensic medical examination of alcohol poisoning: the stages of ethanol biotransformation and variants of thanatogenesis, factors influencing the acceleration or deceleration of ethanol resorption and elimination are given; the principles of diagnosis and differential diagnosis of alcohol poisoning are outlined. The practical application of approaches to differential diagnosis of causes of death makes it possible to increase the comprehensiveness, completeness and validity of the forensic medical examination of a corpse in the event of death from alcohol poisoning