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. 1988 Nov;33(6):1439-44.

Cardiac blood pH as a possible indicator of postmortem interval

W R Sawyer  1 , D R Steup, B S Martin, R B Forney
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  • PMID: 3204346

Cardiac blood pH as a possible indicator of postmortem interval

W R Sawyer et al. J Forensic Sci. 1988 Nov.

Abstract

Postmortem changes in the pH of blood and selected tissues in rats were evaluated at intervals ranging from 2 min to 96 h. Cardiac blood pH was significantly and reproducibly decreased in all groups at all postmortem intervals, independent of the method of sacrifice used. A preliminary study using cardiac blood obtained at autopsy from a limited number (n = 11) of human subjects demonstrated a significant negative correlation (r = -0.908, P less than 0.01) between postmortem interval (range 2 to 20 h) and cardiac blood pH.

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