Table 1:
Details of trauma and nontrauma control cases
| Details of 27 trauma and 10 control cases | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case | Age | Sex | Cause of injury | PMI, h | Cause of death | Survival time |
| 1 | 51 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 60 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 2 | 63 | M | Household accident | 70 | Brain injury | <17 min |
| 3 | 27 | M | Suicide | 84 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 4 | 41 | M | Suicide | 96 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 5 | 57 | F | Motor vehicle accident | 87 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 6 | 49 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 107 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 7 | 45 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 43 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 8 | 21 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 100 | Brain injury | <17 min |
| 9 | 41.3 | M | Aviation accident | 114 | Brain + multiple injuries | <17 min |
| 10 | 57.6 | F | Motor vehicle accident | 97 | Brain injury | <17 min |
| 11 | 16.8 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 85 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 12 | 78.7 | M | Household accident | 45 | Brain injury | <3 h |
| 13 | 18.3 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 79 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 14 | 34.7 | M | Motorbike accident | 66 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 15 | 22.9 | F | Motor vehicle accident | 108 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 16 | 52.8 | M | Motorbike accident | 65 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 17 | 19.6 | M | Suicide | 33 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 18 | 59.8 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 71 | Brain + multiple injuries | <3 h |
| 19 | 46.0 | M | Fall | 129 | Brain injury | 6 h |
| 20 | 56.3 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 65 | Brain injury | 8 h |
| 21 | 64.6 | M | Fall | 61 | Brain injury | 8 h |
| 22 | 75.9 | M | Staircase fall | 89 | Brain injury | 10 h |
| 23 | 59.6 | F | Motor vehicle accident | 80 | Brain injury | 35 h |
| 24 | 61.7 | M | Fall | 40 | Brain injury | 93 h |
| 25 | 38.9 | F | Staircase fall | 101 | Brain injury | 122 h |
| 26 | 70.9 | M | Motor vehicle accident | 114 | Brain injury | 76 h |
| 27 | 73.7 | M | Fall | 91 | Brain injury | 29 h |
| Controls | ||||||
| 28 | 16 | M | — | — | Suicide by hanging | — |
| 29 | 48.7 | M | — | 50 | Cardiac failure | — |
| 30 | 51.6 | M | — | 64 | Asthma | — |
| 31 | 52.3 | M | — | 52 | Cardiomyopathy | — |
| 32 | 59.6 | M | — | 43 | Pulmonary embolism | — |
| 33 | 64.1 | M | — | 24 | Ischaemic heart disease | — |
| 34 | 66.9 | M | — | 10 | Pneumonia | — |
| 35 | 64.4 | M | — | 24 | Pulmonary embolism | — |
| 36 | 77.5 | M | — | 53 | Myocardial infarction | — |
| 37 | 60 | F | — | 48 | Myocardial infarction | — |
Cases 1–10: cases with a survival time between 0 and 17 mins; Cases 11–18: cases with a survival time between 30 min and 3 h; Cases 19–27: cases with a survival time between 6 and 261 h; Cases 28–37: control cases. All brains were obtained at autopsy. PMI, Postmortem interval (time between death and brain retrieval); M, male; F, female.