Acad Forensic Pathol
March 2024
Electrocution is a leading cause of unnatural deaths, especially in industrial and developing regions like India. In a recent case, an individual was brought in for autopsy following an apparent accidental electrocution. Strikingly, the postmortem examination revealed no typical entry or exit wounds associated with electric shocks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCases involving electrocution burns are tough to investigate for the clinical forensic practitioner. Burns from high-voltage electrocution might seem like burns from other sources, especially if the victim is in an unconscious state. In this situation, circumstantial evidence in addition to clinical symptoms may be used to exclude other burns.
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January 2024
In cranial autopsies, the post-mortem examination requires the use of a saw for the removal of the skull cap. In these procedures, sawing of bone becomes a critical source of infectious aerosols which spread instantaneously in the immediate environment, generating liquid aerosols including droplets of cerebrospinal fluid and blood, and leading to exposure of all autopsy personnel. In high-risk cases like prion disease, tuberculosis, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), COVID-19, etc.
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January 2024
In legal medicine, the determination of post-mortem interval (PMI) is not only an important but also one of the most difficult aspects. Several methods are used to estimate PMI such as physicochemical, entomological, biochemical, metabolic, autolytic, and physical methods. These methods provide a wide range of PMI as they are affected by different factors.
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November 2023
Artifacts are pervasive in every realm of biological science, and this includes the field of medicine. Unless explicitly recognized by scientific experts, artifacts can be found and may influence research and findings in the medical domain, just as they do in other branches of biological science. Therapeutic artifacts are changes that occur in the body as a result of medical interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPostmortem interval (PMI) in legal medicine is extremely important for both criminal and civil cases, and several sorts of techniques have been recommended. This systematic review solely focuses on approaches linked to RNA analysis, instead of including all proposed methods for determining the PMI. The term PMI will be used in this review to indicate the time between a person's death and the postmortem examination of the body.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe estimation of accurate post mortem interval (PMI) is a crucial question in forensic medicine. Several approaches have been used to determine the PMI including physical, metabolic, autolytic, entomological, physiochemical and biochemical methods over time. For estimation of PMI, RNA degradation after death is reported to be an important tool.
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