Is the role of forensic medicine in the covid-19 pandemic underestimated?
Forensic Sci Med Pathol
; 17(1): 136-138, 2021 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-778073
ABSTRACT
We believe that forensic medicine should play a significant role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Forensic pathologists should ask and answer various questions through autopsy cases during the COVID-19 period, thus providing a significant contribution to science. Some of the potential roles of forensic medicine in this issue include determining the exact cause of death among the deceased who were SARS-CoV-2 positive, contribution to the accuracy of mortality statistics, understanding pathological mechanisms of COVID-19, tracking the presence of the virus over time, survival of the virus after death as well as dealing with medicolegal issues. A detailed multidisciplinary analysis of autopsy samples would undoubtedly help understand this new illness and its clinical management. Therefore, autopsies during the COVID-19 pandemic should not be an exception, but certainly a rule.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Autopsy
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Professional Role
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Pandemics
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Forensic Medicine
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Forensic Sci Med Pathol
Journal subject:
Jurisprudence
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Medicine
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Pathology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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