Difference between revisions of "Forensic pathology"

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==Blunt force trauma==

*~~Pretty~~ much anything.

===General===

*Weapon: fist, foot, baseball bat... pretty much anything.

*Beer bottles are common... and strong enought to fracture a skull.

**Empty bottles have a higher fracture energy than full ones.<ref name=pmid19239964>{{cite journal |author=Bolliger SA, Ross S, Oesterhelweg L, Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP |title=Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |journal=J Forensic Leg Med |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=138–42 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19239964 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 |url=}}</ref>

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* [[AKA]] ''seatbeat syndrome''.

* Def'n: separation of inner muscularis from submucosa.<ref name=pmid12198344>{{Cite journal | last1 = Slavin | first1 = RE. | last2 = Borzotta | first2 = AP. | title = The seromuscular tear and other intestinal lesions in the seatbelt syndrome: a clinical and pathologic study of 29 cases. | journal = Am J Forensic Med Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | pages = 214-22 | month = Sep | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1097/01.PAF.0000023001.32202.2D | PMID = 12198344 }}</ref>

===Descent from height===

*Relatively common way to suicide.

**May be an ''accident'', e.g. decedent thought they can fly (due to a psychosis).

**May be a ''homicide'', e.g. decedent was pushed.

====Gross====

Features:

*Multiple injuries - often including multiple fractures, e.g. basal skull fracture, flail chest.

*+/-Haemothorax - can be proved with a large bore needle.

**Sufficient for cause of death - can be used to do an abbreviated post-mortem.

*+/-Haemoaspiration (due to facial trauma) - presence suggest that decendent was alive shortly after landing/impact and thus likely very alive during the descent.

==Trauma with delayed death==

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 ==Blunt force trauma==
-*Pretty much anything.
+===General===
+*Weapon: fist, foot, baseball bat... pretty much anything.
 *Beer bottles are common... and strong enought to fracture a skull.
 **Empty bottles have a higher fracture energy than full ones.<ref name=pmid19239964>{{cite journal |author=Bolliger SA, Ross S, Oesterhelweg L, Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP |title=Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |journal=J Forensic Leg Med |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=138–42 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19239964 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 |url=}}</ref>
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 * [[AKA]] ''seatbeat syndrome''.
 * Def'n: separation of inner muscularis from submucosa.<ref name=pmid12198344>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Slavin | first1 = RE. | last2 = Borzotta | first2 = AP. | title = The seromuscular tear and other intestinal lesions in the seatbelt syndrome: a clinical and pathologic study of 29 cases. | journal = Am J Forensic Med Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | pages = 214-22 | month = Sep | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1097/01.PAF.0000023001.32202.2D | PMID = 12198344 }}</ref>
+===Descent from height===
+*Relatively common way to suicide.
+**May be an ''accident'', e.g. decedent thought they can fly (due to a psychosis).
+**May be a ''homicide'', e.g. decedent was pushed.
+====Gross====
+Features:
+*Multiple injuries - often including multiple fractures, e.g. basal skull fracture, flail chest.
+*+/-Haemothorax - can be proved with a large bore needle.
+**Sufficient for cause of death - can be used to do an abbreviated post-mortem.
+*+/-Haemoaspiration (due to facial trauma) - presence suggest that decendent was alive shortly after landing/impact and thus likely very alive during the descent.
 ==Trauma with delayed death==