Table 1.

General information of four specimen cases

Items	1	2	3	4
Gender	Male	Male	Female	Male
Age (years)	24	40	37	37
Duration of drug use (years)	0	5	4	5
Survival time from recent drug use (hours)	0	24	39	3
Underlying disease	N/A	N/A	N/A	Coronary heart disease
Cause of death	Death from electric shock (shock in the palm of the hand)	Acute METH poisoning caused acute coma, and eventually multiple organ failure	METH poisoning caused coma, hyperpyrexia, convulsion, and eventually multiple organ failure	Sudden death form METH-induced coronary heart attack
METH concentration in blood	0	3.9 μg/mL	6.5 μg/mL	0.105 μg/mL
Pre-death temperature (°C)	N/A	39.5	39.2	N/A

METH: Methamphetamine; N/A: not applicable.