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.