Legal Medicine: Forensic Thanatology

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Estudio exhaustivo de los fenómenos de la muerte: definición, diagnóstico, fenomenología cadavérica, estimación del intervalo post mortem, etiología médico-legal y protocolo de necropsia.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Forensic Thanatology
2. Definition and Types of Death
3. · Agony and Perimortal Period
4. Diagnosis of Death: Negative Signs of Life
5. · Negative Functional Signs (Absence of Vital Signs)
6. · Signs of Certain Death (Absolute)
7. Abiotic Cadaveric Phenomena
8. Algor Mortis — Cadaveric Cooldown
9. · Cooling Dynamics
10. · Factors that Modify Algor Mortis
11. Rigor Mortis — Cadaveric Rigidity
12. · Biochemical Base
13. · Chronology of Rigor Mortis (Normal Conditions, 20-22°C)
14. · Rigor Mortis Modifications
15. Livor Mortis — Cadaveric Livideces
16. · Chronology and Characteristics
17. · Medico-Legal Value of Lividity
18. · Special Lividity Colorations
19. Late Cadaveric Phenomena: Destructive and Conservative
20. · Cadaveric Rot
21. · Casper's Rule (Relationship between Media)
22. · Conservative Phenomena of the Corpse
23. Estimation of the Post Mortem Interval (PMI)
24. · Vitreous Humor Chemistry: Vitreous Potassium
25. Forensic Entomology
26. · Entomological Succession
27. Life Injuries vs. Post Mortem Injuries
28. · Diagnostic Criteria for Vitality (Vital Reaction)
29. Medical-Legal Etiology of Death
30. Mechanics of Death: Terminal Physiopathological Mechanisms
31. Mechanical Asphyxia: Classification and Forensic Findings
32. · General Signs of Asphyxia (Asphyxia Signs)
33. Weapon Injuries: Stab Weapons and Firearms
34. · Stab Injuries
35. · Firearm Injuries
36. Medical-Legal Necropsy (Forensic Autopsy)
37. · Forensic Autopsy Protocol
38. · Virtual Autopsy (Virtopsy)
39. Identification of the Corpse and Human Remains
40. Medical-Legal Documents of Death
41. · Medical Death Certificate
42. · Forensic Autopsy Report