The shock is a relative frequent diagnostic in forensic medicine.
Material and method: We realized a statistical study, using 323 deaths through diverse shock typology, registered within the Forensic Medicine Institute of Iaşi in 2000-2009. The concerned variables were: the spread of cases on years, the clinical forms, age, sex, provenience environment, volemic feature, the survival time from the shock to the death, the spread of complications on the form of the shock and survival, the juridical way of death. Our data were introduced in the EXCEL database and statisticaly analyzed by SPSS program.
Results: We obtained statistic data on shock typology, based on the survival time and based on the complications of shock types.
Conclusion: Relevant statistic data were obtained on the relations between the factors that generated the shock, the complications induced and the shock types, related also to the juridical way of death.