Objective: Ensuring uniformity of forensic medical expertise in cases related to the improper provision of medical care; reducing the load on public forensic expert institutions by reducing the number of repeated examinations; raising the authority of forensic medical expertise service via introducing a unified approach to assessing the presence and nature of cause and effect relationship.
Material And Methods: The authors provide expert and court practice examples to show fundamental differences in forensic medical assessment of causal relations of improper provision of medical care with an adverse outcome. A focus is given to the court's assessment of expert opinions in a criminal process.
Objective: To reveal pathological lung changes in baclofen poisoning and to assess their dynamics.
Material And Methods: The experiment included 20 mature (at age 20 weeks) male rats of Wistar line weighing 290-350 gr. The animals were divided into 3 study groups (5 rats in each) depending on experiment's duration after 85 mg/kg baclofen administration: 3, 4.
Article is devoted to the problem of production and legal evaluation of repeated commission (complex) forensic medical examinations based on materials of «medical» practices, related to facts of health care delivery adverse outcomes, in criminal and civil proceedings. Reasons of re-examination assignment, theoretical and applied aspects of this procedural institute in evidence in cases of iatrogenic crimes and unqualified health care delivery were considered. The authors pay particular attention to deficiency of legal base and practical approaches to the re-examination assignment and its results' evaluation, and suggest ways to improve the forensic medical and law enforcement activity in this category of cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: of the study is to identify risk factors for the development of acute pyelonephritis after contact urethrolithotripsy (URLLT) and to establish the mechanisms for maintaining inflammation after the withdrawal of NSAIDs.
Material And Methods: The study included 21 patients who underwent contact ureterolithotripsy (URLT). The severity of leukocyturia was assessed 1 day after URLT, 2 days (the last appointment of NSAIDs, the total duration of the drug was 9 days) and 3 days (24 hours after NSAID discontinuation).