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Legal Medicine: Assessment of Bodily Injury

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Estudio exhaustivo de la valoración médico-legal de las consecuencias de las lesiones: conceptos, nexo de causalidad, metodología pericial, perjuicios temporales y secuelas, baremación, incapacidades y ámbitos de aplicación (penal, civil, laboral y de seguros).

What it covers

  1. Introduction to the Assessment of Bodily Damage
  2. Conceptual Framework: Injury, Damage and Damage
  3. Legal Areas of Valuation
  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 clinic
  33. Expert Ethics, Frequent Errors and Evidence in Trial
  34. · Deontological duties of the expert
  35. · Frequent errors in assessment
  36. Integrative Synthesis

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Subject
Legal Medicine
Category
Clinical Bases
Type
Study Guide
Sections
36
Reviewed
2026-08-02
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