Second autopsy: The Indian scenario.
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in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-143461
ABSTRACT
A Medico-legal autopsy is conducted to ascertain the cause of death, time of death, identification of the deceased, etc. in unnatural and/or suspicious deaths. However, the very purpose for which an autopsy is conducted may either not be served or appear to be poorly served in many a cases. In such times, another autopsy is requested and conducted on an already autopsied body commonly known as second autopsy. Rules are still unclear & varying for medico legal autopsy at different places resulting in unwarranted issues. This has resulted in a surge seen in cases of second autopsy or re-postmortem examination. With no rules governing the conduct of even a second autopsy and the sorry state of medico-legal autopsies as such in India, a lot of issues, wanted and unwanted, creep up while conduct of a second autopsy. An effort is made to draw attention towards the issues associated with the conduct of a second autopsy in India and few suggestions proposed to overcome those difficulties.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Postmortem Changes
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Autopsy
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Humans
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India
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Year:
2012
Type:
Article
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