Police arrest-related death: about four cases and review of the literature.

Unexpected deaths may occur in individuals during a police arrest. These individuals usually have had both physical and emotional exertion, associated or not with agitation and restraint by police. Further investigations in these cases often show an impregnation with drugs.

Death in detention in the Northern part of Tunisia: a 15-year study (2005-2019).

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the pattern of deaths in detention in Northern Tunisia as well as the causes of death.

Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a cross-sectional retrospective study including all the casualties of death in detention examined in the legal medicine Department in the main teaching hospital from 2005 to 2019. The department covers 10 out of the 11 governorates of Northern Tunisia and 13 prisons.

Patterns of Unnatural Deaths Among Children and Adolescents: Autopsy Study (2011-2018).

Background And Aims: The problem of unnatural death in children is still relevant because of their vulnerability. This work aimed to describe the epidemiological profile and patterns of these medicolegal deaths in children and adolescents in northern Tunisia.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study from January 2011 to December 2018, within the Forensic Department of Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis.

Lichtenberg Figures: How a Cutaneous Sign Can Solve Suspicious Death Cases.

Lightning is a natural weather phenomenon that occurs most commonly during the summer months in the afternoon or early evening. Lightning strikes can cause accidental deaths. In developed countries, lightning fatalities occur almost exclusively outdoors.

[Forensic evaluation of initial medical certificates within health facilities in Northern Tunisia].

Initial medical certificate is a descriptive medical and legal document whose purpose is to prove the existence of a damage and to enable the victim to access his or her right. The purpose of our study was to study the content and to evaluate the writing quality of initial medical certificates. We conducted a retrospective and descriptive study over an 18-month period, from January 2017 to June 2018.

Patterns of unintentional fatal drowning among children in North Tunisia : A 10-year study.

Aims: This study aims to better understand patterns of unintentional fatal drowning among children in North Tunisia.

Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study including all unintentional fatal drowning among children was conducted in the Legal and Forensic Medicine department in the Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis, between January 2010 and December 2019. Socio-demographic variables, as well as death circumstances, were documented for each victim and analyzed.

Sudden death related to the gastrointestinal system in Tunisia: A 13 year autopsy study.

Sudden gastrointestinal (GI) death is an unexpected death due to digestive system causes mainly found after autopsy. The literature is rich in articles that studied sudden death due to cardiac causes while sudden GI deaths remain less well-documented. We retrospectively investigated all cases of gastrointestinal death at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Tunis, over 13 years (January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2018).

Fatal coronary ectasia: An autopsy case report and review of literature.

Coronary ectasia is a rare vessel defect that represents a pathological and incidental finding in routine coronary angiography performed for other coronary syndromes. This defect exposes to the risk of intra-coronary thrombosis by blood stasis due to the turbulent blood flow in those dilated areas that can lead to sudden death. We report an autopsy case of a male subject suddenly deceased.

Medico-legal aspects related to Telemedicine in Tunisia in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.

Telemedicine has become a privileged mode of medical practice providing medical care while reducing the transmission of Covid-19 among patients, families, and clinicians. The law established in 2018 settled a legal framework for telemedicine in Tunisia. However, thelatterremains not sufficient in itself, as legal issues remain especially delimiting the precise conditions for this exercise and to expose the limits of responsibility of each party involved among its organizers, its health service providers, and its users.

A fatal case of cannabis body-packing: About an autopsy case report.

The body packing represents an illegal drug trafficking practice across the borders of certain countries. It has experienced enormous growth in recent years. The medical literature is rich in publications interested in body packaging of cocaine or heroin with sometimes lethal consequences.

Workplace Homicides in Northern Tunisia: A 15-Year Study (2003-2017).

Background: Death in workplaces remains a public health issue. However, data regarding workplace homicides are scarce in most of regions, especially in the Arab world. The aim of our study was to analyze the epidemiological features of workplace homicides in northern Tunisia.

Patterns of homicide in North Tunisia: a 10-year study (2005-2014).

Background: In Tunisia and in the Arab world, few data are available about homicide patterns. The aim of our study was to analyse the victims' profiles and the general pattern.

Methods: 636 homicide victims were autopsied at the Legal Medicine Department of Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis, over a period of 10 years (2005-2014).