Electronic Theses and Dissertation

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Shortly a/ier the death v,oLrld otcur the change.s that probubLy, e.tti tote tirne of the
tleuth. One of the changes ttre a decreuse of post-nofiem tetnperuture as meosured by
tanalometer lhrough rectLtnt. ,\lodiJicution oJ the nrcttsuremenl v'ith tligitul lo otoDret$ on
the a:illa bccause of'rhe diJJicttlty to.find the tonatometer. Thi.s stutll, v'us contlucted to
tletermine relationship on.l patterns ol decline in botly temperutu'e os measttred by digirul
lonotomeler on the axilla to the upproximate length oJ time oJ deoth and ohtuin usimple
equ ion estimated time o.f the deurh. The study design ol'this stuLly trus obsenational v'ilh
cross-stclional approuch. The lechnique sampling used is total sanpling wilh concerning to
inclusion ctnd exclttsion criterias. This shttly tvas utndttcletl Jrom ,lanuary, l't to l,lurch, 3(/h
2012 *'ith 35 people as somples. The stutly datas was obatainetl fi'om meosuremcnts o.f body
temperoture in the inpatient room RSUDZA with digital tandlonrcter on the @iilla.for Lr
momment. 30 minute.s and 60 minutes aJier deuth. Room temperatLtre was measto'e(l at same
time. The resak ol srotistic t-test shou'ed signiJicant differences in temperature bety'een time
[) minute, 30 minutes, ond 60 minutes. The restit of correlation test shoy,ed thut there is cr
very slrong relationship bet*-een the decrease in body temperature as measured )t,ith digitt
thermometer on the axilla to the prediction of the length o/ lime ol deoth with a correlation
coelJicient oJ 0.999 which.form a linear patlern of negative andfound no platectu in lhe tarltime
oJ'death. The results of this study also resulted in similarity regression of )'= 831.950 to
22.891 x thal con be ttsed to estimote the time of dedh at the beginning oJ death.
Keltvords: body temperature, post-mortem, time ofdeuth

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