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Forensic Medicine
YEREVAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY AFTER M. HERATSI DEPARTMENT OF Sh. Vardanyan K. Avagyan S. Hakobyan FORENSIC MEDICINE Handout for foreign students YEREVAN 2007 This handbook is adopted by the Methodical Council of Foreign Students of the University DEATH AND ITS CAUSES Thanatology deals with death in all its aspects. Death is of two types: (1) somatic, systemic or clinical, and (2) molecular or cellular. Somatic Death: It is the complete and irreversible stoppage of the circulation, respiration and brain functions, but there is no legal definition of death. THE MOMENT OF DEATH: Historically (medically and legally), the concept of death was that of "heart and respiration death", i.e. stoppage of spontaneous heart and breathing functions. Heart-lung bypass machines, mechanical respirators, and other devices, however have changed this medically in favor of a new concept "brain death", that is, irreversible loss of Cerebral function. Brain death is of three types: (1) Cortical or cerebral death with an intact brain stem. This produces a vegetative state in which respiration continues, but there is total loss of power of perception by the senses. This state of deep coma can be produced by cerebral hypoxia, toxic conditions or widespread brain injury. (2) Brain stem death, where the cerebrum may be intact, though cut off functionally by the stem lesion. The loss of the vital centers that control respiration, and of the ascending reticular activating system that sustains consciousness, cause the victim to be irreversibly comatose and incapable of spontaneous breathing. This can be produced by raised intracranial pressure, cerebral oedema, intracranial haemorrhage, etc.(3) Whole brain death (combination of 1 and 2). -
Leader Charisma Increases Post-Mortem
ORE Open Research Exeter TITLE Dying for charisma: Leaders' inspirational appeal increases post-mortem AUTHORS Steffens, NK; Peters, K; Haslam, SA; et al. JOURNAL Leadership Quarterly DEPOSITED IN ORE 10 October 2017 This version available at http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29764 COPYRIGHT AND REUSE Open Research Exeter makes this work available in accordance with publisher policies. A NOTE ON VERSIONS The version presented here may differ from the published version. If citing, you are advised to consult the published version for pagination, volume/issue and date of publication Short Title: Leader Charisma Increases Post-Mortem Dying for Charisma: Leaders’ Inspirational Appeal Increases Post-Mortem Cite as: Steffens, N.K., Peters, K., Haslam, S.A., & Van Dick, R. (in press). Dying for Charisma: Human inspirational appeal increases post-mortem. Leadership Quarterly Abstract In the present research, we shed light on the nature and origins of charisma by examining changes in a person’s perceived charisma that accompany their death. We propose that death is an event that will strengthen the connection between the leader and the group they belong to, which in turn will increase perceptions of leaders’ charisma. In Study 1, results from an experimental study show that a scientist who is believed to be dead is regarded as more charismatic than the same scientist believed to be alive. Moreover, this effect was accounted for by people’s perceptions that the dead scientist’s fate is more strongly connected with the fate of the groups that they represent. In Study 2, a large-scale archival analysis of Heads of States who died in office in the 21 st century shows that the proportion of published news items about Heads of State that include references to charisma increases significantly after their death. -
A Simple Guide to the Post Mortem Examination Procedure Path Ology Department
A Simple Guide to the Post Mortem Examination Procedure Path ology Department Page 12 Patient Information FURTHER INFORMATION A Simple Guide to the Post Mortem Examination Procedure CRUSE Bereavement Service Cruse House, 126 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1UR In the first instance may we please offer our condolences and Phone number Helpline 0870 167 1677 ask you to please accept our sympathies in your loss Administration 020 8939 9530 Fax 020 8940 7638 Email address [email protected] POST MORTEM EXAMINATION: A SIMPLE GUIDE Website http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk This leaflet explains why you may have been asked to give your The Compassionate Friends consent to a post mortem examination at such a distressing time, 53 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EN and outlines the procedure. Tel (Helpline): 0845 123 2304 Tel (Office): 0845 120 3785 We appreciate that you may not want to be given a lot of details at Web: www.tcf.org.uk the moment, but if you do want more information, this leaflet is The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is a charitable organisation of bereaved accompanied by a more in-depth guide. Staff are available to parents, siblings and grandparents dedicated to the support and care of other answer any questions you may have, and to take you through the bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents who have suffered the death of a child/children. They recognise that many who have suffered the loss of a consent form. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have child feel a bond with others similarly bereaved and wish to extend the hand at any time during the consenting process. -
Death & Decomposition Part II
Death & Decomposition Part II Review: Why is TSD/PMI so important? Review: What happens in the Fresh (1st) Stage of Decomposition? STAGE 2: Bloat ⦿ 0-10 days ⦿ Putrefaction: bacterially-induced destruction of soft tissue and gas formation › Skin blisters and marbling › Build-up of fluids from ruptured cells and intestines Putrefaction – the gross stuff ➢ Decomposition that occurs as a result of bacteria and other microorganisms ➢ Results in gradual dissolution of solid tissue into gases and liquids, and salts Putrefaction ➢ Characteristics: ○ Greenish discoloration ○ Darkening of the face ○ Bloating and formation of liquid or gas-filled blisters ○ Skin slippage Putrefaction ➢ Begins about 36 hours after death ➢ Further destruction is caused by maggots and insects ➢ Above 40 F, insects will feed until the body is skeletonized Influences of Putrefaction ➢ Heavy clothing and other coverings speed up the process by holding in body heat ➢ Injuries to the body surface promote putrefaction ○ provide portals of entry for bacteria Marbling Stage 3: Active Decay ➢ 10-20 days after death ➢ Body begins to collapse and black surfaces are exposed ➢ Bloated body collapses and leaves a flattened body ➢ Body fluids drain from body Active Decay Active Decay: Destruction of Tissue • Severe decomp can result in complete destruction of soft tissue Active Decay: Advanced Decomposition Stage 4: Dry Decay ➢ 20-365 days after death ➢ Remaining flesh on body is removed and body dries out ➢ Body is dry and continues to decay very slowly due to lack of moisture ➢ -
Three End-Of-Life Cases: Resolving Their Moral Dilemmas
Vol. 33:2 Summer 2017 Three End-of-Life Cases: Resolving Their Moral Dilemmas RENÉ E MIRKES, OSF, PHD An organization of Roman Catholic physicians presented a set of questions to guide moral assessment of three end-of-life cases. The questions for each scenario highlight a corresponding ethical dilemma: (Case #1) the determination of brain death by neurological criteria; (Case #2) the decision to withhold or withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) (formerly referred to as persistent vegetative state, [PVS]) patient; and (Case #3) the administration of pain medication that hastens death. To adjudicate the moral concern raised in each of these clinical cases, the following moral analyses appeal to the natural law perspective summarized in the Ethical & Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services1 and in other philosophical resources, both Catholic and secular. CASE #1 An 18-year-old involved in a motorcycle accident was brought to the emergency room with massive head trauma and life support. A brain angiogram showed no blood flow, and a neurological examination revealed no brainstem reflexes as well as persistent apnea. Blood pressure medication was required for heart rate and blood pressure control. Since the patient was an organ donor, the organ recovery team was called in after he was declared brain dead. Discussion (1) When and how do we declare a person dead? What is the difference between theological and scientific definitions of death? (A) A living human being is a substantial union of a (mammalian) body and a rational soul. We are not spiritual beings who use or have bodies. -
The Afterlife of the Meretricious Relationship Doctrine: Applying the Doctrine Post Mortem
The Afterlife of the Meretricious Relationship Doctrine: Applying the Doctrine Post Mortem John E. Wallacet I. INTRODUCTION The meretricious relationship doctrine has received increased attention in recent years largely due to its application to same-sex couples' and the national debate on same-sex marriage. However, the importance of the doctrine, applicable also to heterosexual couples, 2 extends beyond this recent focus. The number of unmarried, committed persons cohabitating has been increasing rapidly. Over eleven million people reported being unmarried but living with a partner in 2000, 3 an 4 increase of seventy-two percent since 1990. As the number of unmarried5 persons cohabitating increases, so will the importance of the doctrine. The meretricious relationship doctrine 6 is a judicially-created equitable doctrine that allows unmarried committed persons who cohabitate to acquire an interest in property accumulated during the relationship, regardless of which partner holds legal title. 7 Upon t J.D. candidate, 2006, Seattle University School of Law; B.A., University of Puget Sound, 2000. The author thanks the partners at Rumbaugh, Rideout, Barnett & Adkins for their assistance with this Article, his family for their continued support, and, most importantly his wife, Shari, for her unfailing love and patience. 1. See Vasquez v. Hawthorne, 145 Wash. 2d 103, 33 P.3d 735 (2001) (dictum); Gormley v. Robertson, 120 Wash. App. 31, 83 P.3d 1042 (2004). 2. In re Marriage of Lindsey, 101 Wash. 2d 299, 678 P.2d 328 (1984) (applying the meretricious relationship doctrine to a relationship involving a heterosexual couple). 3. Alternatives to Marriage Project, Statistics, http://www.unmarried.org/statistics.html (last visited Nov. -
Skin Microbiome Analysis for Forensic Human Identification: What Do We Know So Far?
microorganisms Review Skin Microbiome Analysis for Forensic Human Identification: What Do We Know So Far? Pamela Tozzo 1,*, Gabriella D’Angiolella 2 , Paola Brun 3, Ignazio Castagliuolo 3, Sarah Gino 4 and Luciana Caenazzo 1 1 Department of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy; [email protected] 2 Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy; [email protected] 3 Department of Molecular Medicine, Section of Microbiology, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy; [email protected] (P.B.); [email protected] (I.C.) 4 Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, 28100 Novara, Italy; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +39-0498272234 Received: 11 May 2020; Accepted: 8 June 2020; Published: 9 June 2020 Abstract: Microbiome research is a highly transdisciplinary field with a wide range of applications and methods for studying it, involving different computational approaches and models. The fact that different people host radically different microbiota highlights forensic perspectives in understanding what leads to this variation and what regulates it, in order to effectively use microbes as forensic evidence. This narrative review provides an overview of some of the main scientific works so far produced, focusing on the potentiality of using skin microbiome profiling for human identification in forensics. This review was performed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The examined literature clearly ascertains that skin microbial communities, although personalized, vary systematically across body sites and time, with intrapersonal differences over time smaller than interpersonal ones, showing such a high degree of spatial and temporal variability that the degree and nature of this variability can constitute in itself an important parameter useful in distinguishing individuals from one another. -
Role of House Fly in Determination of Post-Mortem Interval: an Experimental Study in Albino Rats
Ain Shams Journal of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Jan 2017, 28: 133-143 Role of House Fly in Determination of Post-Mortem Interval: An Experimental Study in Albino Rats Ahmed K Elden Elfeky1, Ismail M. Moharm and Bahaa El Deen W. El Aswad2 1 Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology. 2 Department of Medical Parasitology. Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt. All rights reserved. The potential for contributions of entomology to legal investigations has been known for at least 700 Abstract years, but only within the last two decades or so has entomology been defined as a discrete field of forensic science .There are many ways that insects can be used to help in solving a crime, but the primary purpose of forensic entomology is estimating time passed since death. Because blow flies arrive earlier in the decomposition process, they provide the most accurate estimation of time since death. House flies (Musca domestica Linnaeus) are medically and forensically important flies. The aim of this study was to investigate time passed since death according to different stages of house fly life cycle with time variations over months of the year. Materials and methods: 120 mature male albino rats were used, 2 rats were scarified every 6 days and left exposed to houseflies, the different stages of the fly life cycle in relation to different postmortem intervals and represented time were recorded, photographed and statistically analyzed. Results: There is a highly significant statistical difference between -
Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the Corpse: Staging Post-Execution
22-4-2020 Delivering Post-Mortem ‘Harm’: Cutting the Corpse - Dissecting the Criminal Corpse - NCBI Bookshelf NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Hurren ET. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England. Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave Macmillan; 2016. Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem ‘Harm’: Cutting the Corpse Introduction The iconic image of the criminal corpse has been closely associated in historical accounts with one legendary dissection room in early modern England. Section 1 of this fourth chapter revisits that well-known venue by joining the audience looking at the condemned laid out on the celebrated stage of Surgeon’s Hall in London. It does so because this central location has been seen by historians of crime and medicine as a standard-bearer for criminal dissections covering all of Georgian society over the course of the long–eighteenth and early–nineteenth centuries. It is undeniable that inside the main anatomical building in the capital an ‘old style’ of anatomy teaching took place on a regular basis under the Murder Act. This however soon proved to be a medico-legal shortcoming once a ‘new style’ of anatomy came into vogue during the 1790s. By then leading surgeons that did criminal dissections were being tarnished with a lacklustre reputation, even amongst rank and file members of the London Company. This meant that their medico-legal authority was increasingly dubious. It transpired that their traditions were too conservative at a time when anatomy was blossoming across Europe. As it burst its disciplinary boundaries, embracing morbid pathology with its associated new research thrust, London surgeons started to look lacklustre. -
What Happens When My Child Dies?
What Happens When My Child Dies? 1 | P a g e There are not adequate words to express what we would like to say to you at this time, following the death of your child. We are so sorry that you have to face and endure this experience. The loss of a child places you and your family on a journey you never planned or wanted to be on. There are no short cuts or a quick way to make things feel better. There is also no right or wrong way to manage what you are going through. But please remember that you are not alone as you go on this journey. Please use the support you have wherever it is most helpful – from family, friends, community, health services and charities. We are also available to answer any questions that you have. Our contact details are below. This booklet has information about the arrangements that are made following a child’s death. We hope will be helpful to you and the people around you. Sometimes practical arrangements help people to navigate the early days after the loss of their child. For others it is more than they can think about. If this is the case please don’t feel you have to immediately start making arrangements. Ask others to help when you can. We will be thinking of you at this time, and over the coming weeks and months. The Paediatric Bereavement Team 2 | P a g e This booklet contains information about what needs to be done after the death of your child and offers sources of help and support. -
Fermentation of Non-Digestible Oligosaccharides by Human Colonic Bacteria
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society ( 1996), 55,899-9 12 899 Symposium 2 Fermentation of non-digestible oligosaccharides by human colonic bacteria BY GLENN R. GIBSON, ANNE WILLEMS, SALLY READING AND M. DAVID COLLINS Department of Microbiology, Institute of Food Research, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BZ The principal substrates for colonic bacterial growth are dietary carbohydrates which have escaped digestion in the upper gastrointestinal tract. These may be starches, dietary fibres, other non-absorbable sugars, sugar alcohols and oligosaccharides. In the large intestine, saccharolytic bacteria are able to metabolize carbohydrates for increased energy and growth with short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and a variety of other metabolites, such as the electron-sink products lactate, pyruvate, ethanol, H, and succinate, being produced. The majority of human large intestinal micro-organisms, have a strictly anaerobic metabolism, whilst numbers of facultative anaerobes are many orders of magnitude lower than those of the obligate anaerobes. Of the culturable flora, numerically predominant anaerobes are Gram-negative rods belonging to the genus Bacteroides. Other groups which have hitherto been identified as quantitatively significant include bifidobacteria, clostridia, eubacteria, lactobacilli, Gram-positive cocci, coliforms, methanogens and dissimilatory sulphate- reducing bacteria. Generally, the various components of the large intestinal microbiota may be considered as exerting either pathogenic effects or they may have potential health- promoting values. Bifidobacteria and lactobacilli are considered to belong to the latter group. Bacteria in the colon respond largely to the available fermentable substrate, and there is currently some interest in the use of diet to specifically increase groups perceived as health promoting. Non-digestible oligosaccharides seem to have this (prebiotic) potential. -
Part 3 Metabolism of Proteins and Nucleic Acids Частина 3 Обмін Білків І Нуклеїнових Кислот
МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОХОРОНИ ЗДОРОВ'Я УКРАЇНИ Харківський національний медичний університет PART 3 METABOLISM OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS Self-Study Guide for Students of General Medicine Faculty in Biochemistry ЧАСТИНА 3 ОБМІН БІЛКІВ І НУКЛЕЇНОВИХ КИСЛОТ Методичні вказівки для підготовки до практичних занять з біологічної хімії (для студентів медичних факультетів) Затверджено вченою радою ХНМУ Протокол № 1 від 26.01.2017 р. Approved by the Scientific Council of KhNMU. Protocol 1 (January 26, 2017) Харків ХНМУ 2017 Metabolism of proteins and nucleic acids : self-study guide for students of general medicine faculty in biochemistry. Part 3: / Comp. : O. Nakonechna, S. Stetsenko, L. Popova, A. Tkachenko. – Kharkiv : KhNMU, 2017. – 56 p. Compilers Nakonechna O. Stetsenko S. Popova L. Tkachenko A. Обмін білків та нуклеїнових кислот : метод. вказ. для підготовки до практ. занять з біологічної хімії (для студ. мед. ф-тів). Ч 3. / упоряд. О.А. Наконечна, С.О. Стеценко, Л.Д. Попова, А.С. Ткаченко. – Харків : ХНМУ, 2017. – 56 с. Упорядники О.А. Наконечна С.О. Стеценко Л.Д. Попова А.С. Ткаченко - 2 - SOURCES For preparing to practical classes in "Biological Chemistry" Basic Sources 1. Біологічна і біоорганічна хімія: у 2 кн.: підруч. Біологічна хімія / Ю.І. Губ- ський, І.В. Ніженковська, М.М. Корда, В.І. Жуков та ін. ; за ред. Ю.І. Губського, І.В. Ніженковської. – Кн. 2. – Київ : ВСВ «Медицина», 2016. – 544 с. 2. Губський Ю.І. Біологічна хімія : підруч. / Ю.І. Губський – Київ– Вінниця: Нова книга, 2007. – 656 с. 3. Губський Ю.І. Біологічна хімія / Губський Ю.І. – Київ–Тернопіль : Укр- медкнига, 2000. – 508 с. 4. Гонський Я.І.