Legal Medicine: Assessment of Bodily Injury

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Exhaustive study of the medical-legal assessment of the consequences of injuries: concepts, causal link, expert methodology, temporary damages and consequences, scale, disabilities and areas of application (criminal, civil, labor and insurance).

What it covers

1. Introduction to the Assessment of Bodily Damage
2. Conceptual Framework: Injury, Damage and Damage
3. Legal Areas of Assessment
4. Temporal Concepts of the Injury Process
5. The Medical-Legal Causality Nexus
6. · Causal imputation criteria
7. · Previous status and causes
8. Assessment Methodology
9. Temporary Personal Injury
10. The Aftermath and its Rating
11. · The scoring system
12. Concurrence of Sequels — Balthazard's Formula
13. Aesthetic Damage
14. Particular Personal Injury
15. Patrimonial Damage: Consequential Damage and Loss of Profits
16. Assessment of Disabilities
17. · Work incapacity
18. · Civil incapacity (to act)
19. Assessment of Psychic Damage
20. Special Situations
21. · Previous state and pre-existing damage
22. · Simulation and dissimulation
23. · Assessment in children and the elderly
24. The Expert Report on Damage Assessment
25. Medical Scale by Devices and Systems
26. · Transversal principles of punctuation
27. Assessment of the Major Injured Person
28. Assessment in Health Responsibility
29. · Specific doctrines
30. Assessment of Pain and Suffering
31. Cervical Sprain (Cervical Whiplash)
32. · Mechanism and presentation
33. Expert Ethics, Frequent Errors and Evidence in Trial
34. · Deontological duties of the expert
35. · Frequent errors in assessment
36. Integrative Synthesis