Journal de médecine légale

A Series of Fatal Choking Death in Elderly

Abstract

Sunil Kumar Duchania and Shweta Garg

Sudden death due to foreign body obstruction of upper airways often termed Cafe Coronary has received considerable attention in the last two decades. However, there are no previous reports of Electrocardiographic records of the Victims or survivors of the condition. Death due to accidental choking is observed in all age group but extremes of age are more vulnerable. It is usually due to a foreign body, but it can be caused by the products of the disease (or violence) or by anatomical changes due to disease. People experience choking by accidental slipping of food bolus in their respiratory tract in their daily lives. Most of the people recover from it but a few experience obstruction of the respiratory tract that cannot be cleared and may prove fatal. Accidental choking is the commonest manner of choking. In the present case report a case of death due to choking which was brought in the department of forensic medicine for post-mortem examination.