ABSTRACT
Dating of an injury in both living and dead is an important medico-legal issue in the field of crime investigation to fix the liability. A doctor is required to date injuries specifically and individually while preparing an injury report. In this paper we study the sequential changes in mechanical and thermal injuries and to compare the findings with available standard data. All the medico-legal deaths due to injuries, brought for post-mortem examination, over a period of four months were studied. On comparing with standard data, 71% (n=32) of the abrasions were dark red instead of bright red on first day. 92% (n=13) bruises appears bluish green instead of red colour on first day and on the 5th day, the colour appears black instead of greenish colour. In cases of incised and lacerated wound margins were difficult to separate on the 2nd day, instead of separating easily. Observations of this study did not match with the sequential colour changes mentioned in the available literature. Therefore, other parameters need to be explored for dating an injury.
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Age Factors , Autopsy , Burns/analysis , Burns/physiology , Chronology as Topic , Contusions/analysis , Contusions/physiology , Humans , Postmortem Changes , Wounds and Injuries/analysis , Wounds and Injuries/physiologySubject(s)
Acute Kidney Injury/etiology , Acute Kidney Injury/physiopathology , Acute Kidney Injury/therapy , Combined Modality Therapy , Critical Illness , Disease Progression , Electric Injuries/complications , Electric Injuries/diagnosis , Emergency Service, Hospital , Fatal Outcome , Humans , Injury Severity Score , Male , Rhabdomyolysis/complications , Rhabdomyolysis/diagnosis , Young AdultABSTRACT
It is a principle recognised not only by our own but by other legal systems that ignorance of the law is no excuse for violating it. This is also expressed in the form of a legal presumption that everyone knows the law. So it is the duty of every person to be acquainted with that part of it which concerns him or her. In recent years there have been a number of malpractice suits based on lack of consent or inadequate consent from the patient for procedures used in treatment. The common meaning of consent is permission, whereas the law perceives it as a contract, that is, an agreement enforceable by law. Keeping this view, the present article aims at highlighting certain misconceptions prevailing regarding consent.
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Ethics, Medical , Humans , India , Malpractice/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
Identification of an individual is one of the requisites in establishing the corpus delicti. Here, we discuss a case of establishing corpus delicti based on the continuance of the vascular groove on the endocranial surface, by matching two pieces of skull bone that were recovered at the crime scene and preserved at autopsy.