| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Indonesia is one of the developing countries that have various cultures, ethnicities, and mysticism. Those things influence their society, especially the people in the low middle
class and uneducated well. Many people still believe that a disease can occur due to mystical
things, so they believe that a dukun can treat it, even if the process is illogical. This phenomenon
nowadays still exists in society. Dukun usually has his way to cure or solve someone’s diseases,
even though his methods to cure someone’s diseases usually do not have evidence-based and the
diseases need to see professionals. It shows in this case. Dukun in this case used ice blocks as his
method to cure someone’s disease. This “ice blocks therapy” may trigger hypothermia conditions
in someone and also may cause death, especially in a person with chronic disease. The range temperature in the Jember Regency between 21-31o
C which makes hypothermia rarely found here. The
case will present in this paper. Case report: In this case, we present an interesting case about the
use of ice blocks, called “ice blocks therapy” and then considered as a therapy method and an unexpected death. Conclusions: Review of patient history, postmortem findings, forensic pathology,
and socio-cultural aspects are some of the keys to solving the problem. In this case, hypothermia
through ice block therapy plays a role in decreasing organ function which results in death | en_US |
