Mock court: a valuable tool to teach legal procedures to undergraduate medical students.

Background: Teaching through role-plays is a preferred modality when certain behaviours or skills need to be taught. They provide a risk-free environment that simulates a real-life scenario. For a clinician, appearance in a Court of Law as an expert witness is a part of his/her legal obligation.

A Standardized Protocol for the Safe Retrieval of Infectious Postmortem Human Brain for Studying Whole-Brain Pathology.

We describe a safe and standardized perfusion protocol for studying brain pathology in high-risk autopsies using a custom-designed low-cost infection containment chamber and high-resolution histology. The output quality was studied using the histological data from the whole cerebellum and brain stem processed using a high-resolution cryohistology pipeline at 0.5 μm per pixel, in-plane resolution with serial sections at 20-μm thickness.

Forensic Microbiology in India: A missing piece in the puzzle of criminal investigation system.

Background: Forensic Microbiology is an emerging branch of science that has great potential to assist criminal investigations. Having said that, microbial analysis is not performed routinely during forensic investigations in India. This could be attributed to lack of specific training and lack of evidence-based standard protocol.

A Negative-Pressure Face-Mounted System Reduces Aerosol Spread during Endonasal Endoscopic Surgery.

 Due to the potential risk of COVID-19 transmission during endonasal surgery, we studied methods to reduce droplet and aerosol generation during these procedures.  Droplet spread was assessed using ultraviolet light and a camera that detected fluorescence in the operative field and surgeon's personal protective equipment. Density of aerosols sized <10 µm was measured using a photometric particle counter.