13 results match your criteria: "University Center of Legal Medicine (CURML)[Affiliation]"

Background: The intent of plain-language resources (PLRs) reporting medical research information is to advance health literacy among the general public and enable them to participate in shared decision-making (SDM). Regulatory mandates coupled with academic and industry initiatives have given rise to an increasing volume of PLRs summarizing medical research information. However, there is significant variability in the quality, format, readability, and dissemination channels for PLRs.

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Age assessment in unaccompanied minors: assessing uniformity of protocols across Europe.

Int J Legal Med

May 2024

LABANOF, Laboratorio Di Antropologia E Odontologia Forense, Sezione Di Medicina Legale, Dipartimento Di Scienze Biomediche Per La Salute, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Via Mangiagalli 37, 20133, Milan, Italy.

Age assessment of migrants is crucial, particularly for unaccompanied foreign minors, a population facing legal, social, and humanitarian challenges. Despite existing guidelines, there is no unified protocol in Europe for age assessment.The Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE) conducted a comprehensive questionnaire to understand age estimation practices in Europe.

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From volume 67 (1970) onwards, the journal appeared under the new bilingual title Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin-Journal of Legal Medicine. The editorial board was expanded and internationalised. From 1970 to 1990, 1416 articles were published in 36 volumes.

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The interruption of the publication of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin due to the war ended with volume 39 for the years 1948/1949. Until volume 66/1969, the journal appeared unchanged under the historical title. The 912 publications contained in the 28 volumes of these two decades cover topics from the main fields of forensic medicine, but also from related and unrelated disciplines.

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From its launc h in 1922 to the end of the Second World War, the Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin spanned 38 volumes. The 1762 papers contained in those volumes reflect contemporary interests and include many papers from peripheral fields and non-medico-legal disciplines. Publications concerned with issues outside core legal medicine fields in particular allow two distinct tendencies in the development of German institutes of legal medicine to be discerned.

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Ogilvie's syndrome refers to a massive dilation of the colon without mechanical obstruction. Although this syndrome is well-known in the clinical literature and may sometimes be encountered as a complication of abdominal, pelvic, or hip surgery, it has only been reported sporadically in the forensic literature. We present the case of a forensic autopsy carried out on a patient whose death was related to cecal necrosis with acute peritonitis due to Ogilvie's syndrome following hip surgery.

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Factors Influencing Physician Decision Making to Attempt Advanced Resuscitation in Asystolic Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

August 2021

Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

The objective of this study was to identify the key elements used by prehospital emergency physicians (EP) to decide whether or not to attempt advanced life support (ALS) in asystolic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). From 1 January 2009 to 1 January 2017, all adult victims of asystolic OHCA in Geneva, Switzerland, were retrospectively included. Patients with signs of "obvious death" or with a Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation order were excluded.

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Inside the lungs of COVID-19 disease.

Int J Legal Med

July 2020

University Center of Legal Medicine (CURML), Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

In the setting of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, only few data regarding lung pathology induced by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is available, especially without medical intervention interfering with the natural evolution of the disease. We present here the first case of forensic autopsy of a COVID-19 fatality occurring in a young woman, in the community. Diagnosis was made at necropsy and lung histology showed diffuse alveolar damage, edema, and interstitial pneumonia with a geographically heterogeneous pattern, mostly affecting the central part of the lungs.

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E-Cigarettes: A Review of New Trends in Cannabis Use.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

August 2015

Department of Community Medicine and Health (DUMSC), Rue du Bugnon 44, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.

The emergence of electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) has given cannabis smokers a new method of inhaling cannabinoids. E-cigs differ from traditional marijuana cigarettes in several respects. First, it is assumed that vaporizing cannabinoids at lower temperatures is safer because it produces smaller amounts of toxic substances than the hot combustion of a marijuana cigarette.

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The emergence of forensic nursing and advanced nursing practice in Switzerland: an innovative case study consultation.

J Forensic Nurs

May 2015

Author Affiliations: 1Violence Medical Unit, University Center of Legal Medicine (CURML), Lausanne University Hospital Center; 2Community Health and Medicine Department (DUMSC), Lausanne University Hospital Center (CURML); 3Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University Institute of Training and Research in Patient Care (IUFRS), University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital Center; 4CURML, Lausanne and Geneva, University Hospital Center; and 5Faculty of Nursing Sciences, Universite Laval.

Background And Methods: The objectives of this article were to systematically describe and examine the novel roles and responsibilities assumed by nurses in a forensic consultation for victims of violence at a University Hospital in French-speaking Switzerland. Utilizing a case study methodology, information was collected from two main sources: (a) discussion groups with nurses and forensic pathologists and (b) a review of procedures and protocols. Following a critical content analysis, the roles and responsibilities of the forensic nurses were described and compared with the seven core competencies of advanced nursing practice as outlined by Hamric, Spross, and Hanson (2009).

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Many studies based on either an experimental or an epidemiological approach, have shown that the ability to drive is impaired when the driver is under the influence of cannabis. Baseline performances of heavy users remain impaired even after several weeks of abstinence. Symptoms of cannabis abuse and dependence are generally considered incompatible with safe driving.

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New insights in carbohydrate-deficient transferrin analysis with capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry.

Forensic Sci Int

October 2014

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Bd d'Yvoy 20, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, University of Geneva, CMU, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. Electronic address:

Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) with UV detection has been widely used for the determination of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), an indirect marker of the chronic alcohol consumption (≥60-80g/day). A commercially available method (CEofix™ CDT kit), containing a bilayer anionic coating, allows for the analysis of CDT with a high resolution between transferrin (Tf) glycoforms with reduced protein adsorption onto the capillary wall. Although widely used in routine analysis, this procedure presents some limitations in terms of selectivity and sensitivity which may be overcome with mass spectrometry (MS).

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