Strangulation and Suffocation
Strangulation and Suffocation
Strangulation and Suffocation
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<strong>Suffocation</strong> Signs <strong>and</strong> Symptoms<br />
•Skin abrasions (scratch marks, fingernail marks)<br />
<strong>and</strong> tiny red spots (petechiae) just over the face<br />
in strangulation, or generalized in the skin in<br />
suffocation<br />
•Abrasions over nostrils<br />
•Lip incised abrasions where lips are pushed<br />
against teeth<br />
(c) Dean Hawley <strong>and</strong> C<strong>and</strong>ace Heisler, 2012 14