Legal Medicine: Forensic Pathology — Traumatology and Asphyxiology

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Estudio exhaustivo de la lesionología médico-legal y de las asfixias mecánicas: génesis, morfología y datación de las lesiones, diferenciación etiológica (homicidio, suicidio, accidente), heridas por arma blanca y de fuego, grandes traumatismos, y el síndrome asfíctico en todas sus modalidades.

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. · Bites
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. · Entry Orifice
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. · Physiopathology
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