Summary
The manual examination of rigor mortis as currently used and its often subjective evaluation frequently produced highly incorrect deductions. It is therefore desirable that such inaccuracies should be replaced by the objective measuring of rigor mortis at the extremities.
To that purpose a method is described which can also be applied in on-the-spot investigations and a new formula for the determination of rigor mortis — indices (FRR) is introduced.
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Die bis heute angewandte manuelle Prüfung der Totenstarre sowie deren subjektive Bewertung führen in vielen Fällen zu groben Fehlbeurteilungen. Sie sollten daher durch eine objektive Rigor-Messung an den Extremitäten ersetzt werden. Hierzu wird eine auch am Tatort praktikable Methode beschrieben und eine neue Formel zur Berechnung von Starre-Indices (FRR) angegeben.
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Forster, B., Ropohl, D. & Raule, P. Eine neue Formel zur Beurteilung der Totenstarre: Die Feststellung des FRR-Index. Z Rechtsmed 80, 51–54 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02332347
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02332347