Legal Medicine: Forensic Pathology — Traumatology and Asphyxiology

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Exhaustive study of medico-legal lesionology and mechanical asphyxiation: genesis, morphology and dating of the injuries, etiological differentiation (homicide, suicide, accident), stab and gunshot wounds, major trauma, and asphyxitic syndrome in all its modalities.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Forensic Trauma Pathology
2. Concept of Injury and Classification of Contusions
3. Elemental Blunt Injuries
4. · Ecchymoses and Hematomas
5. · Excoriations
6. · Blunt Wounds
7. · Bite marks
8. Dating of Injuries — Chronology of Ecchymosis
9. Vital Injury vs. Post Mortem Injury
10. Stab Wounds
11. · Medical-Legal Differentiation: Homicide · Suicide · Accident
12. Gunshot Wounds
13. · Entrance Wound
14. · Etiology in gunshot wounds
15. Falls and Precipitation
16. Forensic Traffic Pathology — Hit and run
17. Head Trauma and Skeletal Injuries
18. · Skull and brain injuries
19. · Anthropology and forensic bone pathology
20. Injuries due to Physical Agents: Heat, Cold, Electricity
21. · Burns and death by fire
22. · Hypothermia and cold injuries
23. · Electrocution
24. Forensic Asphyxiology — Asphyctic Syndrome
25. · Pathophysiology
26. · General Signs of Asphyxia (Asphyctic Syndrome)
27. Hanging
28. · Death mechanisms
29. · The Hanging Groove
30. · Autoerotic Asphyxia and Incomplete Suspension
31. Strangulation
32. Suffocation and Asphyxia due to Compression / Confinement
33. Submersion (Death by Submersion)
34. · Types and pathophysiology
35. · Signs of vital submergence
36. Asphyxia due to Gases and Chemical Anoxias
37. Forensic Ballistics — Deeper
38. · Types of weapons and ammunition
39. Injuries from Employer and Abuse Syndromes
40. · Child abuse
41. · Gender/partner violence
42. · Elder abuse and torture
43. Forensic Pathology of Sexual Assault
44. Blast Injury
45. Notions of Forensic Toxicology and Alcoholemia
46. · Samples and their value
47. · Ethyl alcohol
48. Expert Documentation and Assessment of Bodily Damage
49. · The injury report
50. · Assessment of bodily damage
51. Integrating Expert Synthesis