Librería Servicio Médico

Author: Corrigan

Language: English

Finishing: Hardcover, 243 pages

ISBN: 9781439876664

Edition Number: February 2012

Description:

A myriad of different scenarios await those entering the field of forensic pathology, ranging from gunshot wounds to asphyxiation to explosives to death from addiction. Essential Forensic Pathology: Core Studies and Exercises helps prepare pathologists in training by establishing what they must know about the most common death scenes they will encounter.

The book begins by discussing the coaching objectives in medical education and follows with a description of the 15 different rotations of the forensic pathology resident. Using a consistent and concise format, the book describes the facility where the rotation takes place, the necessary skills, the laboratory equipment, and other components of the rotation.

The main portion of the book presents forensic pathology essentials in the form of learning objectives—each delineated with a code: "M" for items students must know, and "S" for those they must do. This section begins by discussing the government’s role, describes medical examiner and coroner systems, and analyzes the academic discipline of forensic pathology. Next, the book focuses on hands-on elements of forensic pathology, with chapters on scene investigation, identification, and postmortem changes (signs of death). Objectives are also presented for various causes of death, including gunshot wounds, stab wounds, asphyxiation, sex-related death, and death from addiction. Additional chapters cover bombs and explosive devices, mental disease, epidemics, and issues related to forensic entomology.

Each chapter contains a list of pertinent vocabulary and references for further study. By mastering the objectives contained in each chapter of this manual, forensic pathology students will be ready to pass certification exams and work confidently in the field.

Feature

• Presents the advice of a practicing forensic pathologist
• Provides a succinct review of the year of study in forensic pathology residency
• Describes the 15 different rotations of the forensic pathology resident and identifies facilities, skills, and equipment related to each rotation
• Provides a series of objectives for each area of study, along with pertinent vocabulary and references

Table of Contents:

• The discipline of forensic pathology
• The medical examiner and coroner systems compared
• Academic and Administrative lessons
• Scene Investigation
• Morgue activities adjunctive to the forensic autopsy
• Post-mortem changes
• The Medicolegal Autopsy and ethical considerations in diagnosis
• The cause and mechanisms of death
• Sudden Death, SIDS, Interstitial pneumonia, Forensic clinical microbiology
• Trauma: chemical, thermal, electric, physical, radiation, exotic
• Secondary effects and complications of trauma
• Secondary effects and complications of trauma
• Gunshot wounds and projectile injury
• Incised Wounds and Stab wounds
• Asphyxiation, Drowning
• Blunt force injuries; the battered child
• Electrical and Thermal injury
• Gas Asphyxiation
• Occupational diseases
• Sexual deaths: asphyxiation, assault, rape
• Abortion and Infanticide; crib deaths, SIDS
• Alcoholism and Deaths of Addiction
• Analytical Toxicology: principles and methods
• Classifications of death
• Trace evidence and Criminalistics
• Recent advances in medical ethics affecting Forensic Medicine and Pathology
• International Forensic Medicine and Pathology Practice
• Urban warfare and nationalistic weaponry
• Bombs, explosives, lED
• The new Electronic Media; Forensic Informatics
• Szasz, The Asylum, and the 60's
• Forensic molecular pathology
• Forensic sciences become popular and why?
• Organizational complexity in the forensic sciences
• Forensic sciences and the military
• Digital forensics and forensic informatics
• Jurisprudence and how it relates to forensics
• Forensic Entomology
• Clinical Forensic Medicine
• Selected essays

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