Forensic Toxicology

Forensic Toxicology — Legal Medicine

How it begins

Estudio exhaustivo de los principios analíticos, toxicocinéticos y médico-legales que sustentan la investigación pericial de las intoxicaciones, con correlaciones clínicas y forenses de relevancia práctica.

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