medicolegal Aspects Of Autopsy

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Medicolegal Aspects Of Autopsy : 

Medicolegal Aspects Of Autopsy By Dr Ruby MBA 1ST YEAR

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Medico-legal autopsy is performed, as part of the inquest procedure, when ordered by the investigating authority in ML deaths.

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The inquesting authority is usually civil(Police/Magistrat) but military inquest is carried out in areas where civil administrative set up is not available to carry out inquest

Aims and Objectives of Medico-Legal Autopsy: : 

Aims and Objectives of Medico-Legal Autopsy: 1. To determine exact cause and manner of death, 2. To establish identity of the deceased, 3. To determine time since death, 4. To collect trace evidence, 5. Reconstruction of the crime scene

Documentary Pre-requisites : 

Documentary Pre-requisites A letter from the IO asking the medical officer to carry out the ML autopsy A copy of the “Panchanama” carried out by the IO at the site of death. This document pictures the scene of death for the prosector. Dead Body Challan

Physical facilities: : 

Physical facilities: The same infrastructural facilities required for clinical autopsy are required for ML autopsy. Often ML postmortem has to be conducted in places where none or minimal facilities are available. On-site autopsies are common after exhumation for grossly decomposed dead bodies.

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Provision of natural lighting and exhaust ventilation is essential for autopsy room of a Forensic Medicine department.

Prosector : 

Prosector Unlike clinical autopsy, minimum qualification sufficient to carry out ML autopsy is graduation in medicine.

Autopsy Procedure : 

Autopsy Procedure The autopsy procedure is essentially the same as for clinical autopsy. All medico-legal autopsies are complete autopsies. Hence a thorough external and internal examination of all organs is carried out in all cases. Exceptions are the vertebral column and spinal cord.

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As soon as the autopsy is over, the cause of death is intimated to the investigating officer in a sealed envelope through the police constable who had come along with the body

Videoclipping of an autopsy : 

Videoclipping of an autopsy It’s a crime scene

Famous Quotes : 

Famous Quotes “That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time”. Michael Baden Thank You