First year of in-house forensic neuropathology consultations in Helsinki, Finland.

In July 2023, an in-house forensic neuropathology consultation pilot was established at the Helsinki office of the Forensic Medicine Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. This offered an alternative to the previous practice of full outsourcing to a hospital neuropathology department. This paper aims to introduce the first year experiences of the pilot.

Postmortem concentrations of ropivacaine, bupivacaine, and lidocaine in femoral venous blood after hip fracture surgery.

Pain relief in hip fracture patients may be sought by injecting local anesthetic such as ropivacaine, bupivacaine, and lidocaine to the femoral area. As femoral veins are a routine sampling site for postmortem blood, this short report aimed to describe the levels of local anesthetics in ipsilateral (i.e.

Infant botulism acquired from household dust presenting as sudden infant death syndrome.

Clostridium botulinum type B was detected by multiplex PCR in the intestinal contents of a suddenly deceased 11-week-old infant and in vacuum cleaner dust from the patient's household. C. botulinum was also isolated from the deceased infant's intestinal contents and from the household dust.

Reduced adrenal activation in a rat line selected for high alcohol sensitivity.

Background: A rat line developed by selective breeding for high alcohol sensitivity has blunted corticosterone responses to alcohol and stress. In the present study, we determined possible differences in adrenal activation after alcohol and motor performance testing between the alcohol-sensitive alcohol-nontolerant and alcohol-insensitive alcohol-tolerant rats.

Methods: The animals received ethanol (2 g/kg, intraperitoneally), and 30 min later they were subjected to a motor function test (i.

The effect of temporal parameters on subjective sensations evoked by electrical tooth stimulation.

The effect of stimulus duration and frequency on subjective sensations evoked by electrical tooth stimulation was studied in 12 subjects. The sensory responses were classified using 5 equi-sensation categories (perception threshold, prepain, pain threshold, moderate pain, intense pain). Both continuously increasing and randomised stimuli were applied.

Electrical stimulation of pulp nerves--comparison of monopolar and bipolar electrode coupling.

In the present study monopolar and bipolar electrode couplings were compared in electrical stimulation of intradental nerves. In experiments on cats the threshold current values of A- and C-fibres and the jaw-opening reflex were measured with both techniques using different durations of current pulses (0.2-50 msec).