[Forensic medical characteristics of fatal injuries in a traffic accident in the car cabin].

The study objective is to identify the most common fatal injuries in car accidents and observe the trends of the proportion of deaths at the scene, in an ambulance, and a hospital. We analyzed all forensic examination reports (protocols) of those who died in the car due to a traffic accident in Moscow from 2018 to 2020. Male drivers died 15 times more often than female drivers, and male passengers died twice as often as females.

[Cases of heart strangulation in a wound of the pericardium].

Describes the rare cases of incarceration of a part of the heart between the edges of the pericardium in incisions made during cardiosurgery for cut wounds of the heart and in case of incarceration of the heart at the site of rupture of the pericardium during traumas in the car cabin as a result of car accidents. Incarceration of the heart has been never diagnosed during patient's life.