Forensic Toxicology

Forensic Toxicology — Legal Medicine

How it begins

Exhaustive study of the analytical, toxicokinetic and medico-legal principles that support the expert investigation of poisonings, with clinical and forensic correlations of practical relevance.

What it covers

1. Forensic Toxicology
2. Fundamentals and Scope of Forensic Toxicology
3. · Branches of Forensic Toxicology
4. · General Classification of Toxics
5. Chain of Custody and Taking of Biological Samples
6. · Chain of Custody Sequence
7. · Types of Biological Samples and their Forensic Application
8. Forensic Toxicokinetics and Postmortem Redistribution
9. · Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination
10. · Postmortem Redistribution (PMR)
11. Analytical Methods in Forensic Toxicology
12. · Screening Techniques
13. · Confirmation Techniques
14. Ethiolic Intoxication: Forensic Alcoholemia
15. · Ethanol Kinetics: Enzymatic Saturation
16. · Widmark Formula: Retrograde Extrapolation
17. · Clinical Degrees of Drunkenness
18. Toxic Asphyxiants: Carbon Monoxide and Cyanide
19. · Carbon Monoxide (CO)
20. · Cyanide
21. Drugs of Abuse in Forensic Toxicology
22. Chemical Submission
23. · Substances Most Frequently Involved
24. Heavy Metal Poisoning
25. Pesticides: Organophosphates and Carbamates
26. · Cholinergic toxindrome
27. Cadaver Toxicology: Putrefaction and Neoformation
28. · Postmortem Ethanol Neoformation
29. · Other Relevant Postmortem Phenomena
30. Medical-Legal Aspects: Expert Report and Probative Value
31. · Structure of the Toxicological Expert Report
32. · Providing Value and Function of the Expert