[Forensic-medical assessment of terroristic chemical attacks].

By potential damage, chemical terroristic attacks are much more dangerous than terroristic bombing. To fight chemical terrorism it is necessary to create the system of medical-environmental defense of the population. In line with emergency medicine, forensic medical service is a very important element of the antiterroristic defense. The activity of forensic-medical experts in the field of terroristic chemical attack is analysed.

[The forensic chemical study of psilocybine-containing fungi]. / Sudebno-khimicheskoe issledovanie psilotsibinsoderzhashchikh gribov.

A method for isolating the main components (psilocybin and psilocine) from Psilocybe semilanceata mushrooms, their identification and measurement by thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography, chromatographic mass-spectrometry, and inverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography is developed.

[The toxicological aspects of poisonings by psilocybine-containing mushrooms]. / Toksikologicheskie aspekty otravlenii psilotsibinsoderzhashchimi gribami.

Cases involving the investigation of psylocybin-containing mushrooms became more frequent in forensic chemical and criminological expert evaluation in recent years. The authors present the data on the main chemical factors contained in these mushrooms, on the mechanism of their toxic effect, clinical picture of poisoning, and methods of chemical and toxicological analysis.

[The gas chromatographic analysis of irritating substances]. / Gazokhromatograficheskii analiz razdrazhaiushchikh veshchestv.

Conditions for gas-liquid and chromato-mass-spectrometric analyses of chloracetone, dinitril o-chlorobenzylidene malonic acid, and pelargonic acid morpholide have been developed. The proposed methods may be used for identification of these compounds in investigation of material evidence in cases involving the use of defence gas weapons.

[The forensic medical expertise of the victims of large-scale fires]. / Sudebno-meditsinskaia ékspertiza pogibshikh pri krupnomasshtabnykh pozharakh.

The difficulties of present-day forensic medical expert evaluation of poisonings in fires are explained by exposure of man to highly toxic compounds that form during burning of polymers. Analyzing forensic medical expert evaluations of a large number of victims dead in a large-scale fire, the authors emphasize the necessity of measuring not only dead people's blood levels of HbCO, but of some other toxic combustion products that may exert combined effects on human body. The authors think it desirable that criteria of forensic medical evaluation of combined poisoning in fire be defined.