[An assessment of the direct costs of healthcare for victims of sexual assaults in hospital emergency units].

Background: The Forensic medicine reform in 2011 enabled the development of forensic units specialized in multidisciplinary care of victims of criminal offences. Thanks to an annual budgetary allocation, the Ministry of Justice handles the financing of judicial acts, while the health care facilities assume the medical, psychological and social aspects. The objective of this study was to determine the direct costs of medical care provided to rape victims (such as defined in the article 222-23 of the Penal Code) in order to see how its funding could be reconsidered to prevent any additional cost that could be caused by non-sufficient medical, psychological and social care.

Sudden death during worker transportation due to massive pulmonary thromboembolism: a case report.

This is a report on a 30-year-old black man who suddenly died in the worker transportation vehicle in which he had been quietly sitting for thirty minutes. No information about his medical or surgical history or any family history has been obtained. This case is intended to highlight the fact that forensic autopsy is a valuable tool to recognize the cause of death and that fatal pulmonary thromboembolism still remains a post-mortem diagnosis.