ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To explore the main problems and ideas in the death cases of medical tangles after trauma. METHODS: Twelve death cases of medical tangles after trauma were selected from a forensic science institute during recent six years. Traumatic conditions, medical malpractices and contribute degree of malpractice were estimated and analyzed. RESULTS: The reasons of trauma included accidents and intentional injury. Among these cases, there were 10 involved in malpractice, of which 7 cases played secondary role. CONCLUSION: Diagnosis, symptom observation and emergency therapy are the important keys for determining the responsibility in death cases of medical tangles after trauma.
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Forensic Medicine , Malpractice , Wounds and Injuries/pathology , Adult , Aged , Cause of Death , Female , Fractures, Bone/etiology , Fractures, Bone/mortality , Fractures, Bone/pathology , Humans , Male , Medical Errors/prevention & control , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Wounds and Injuries/etiology , Wounds and Injuries/mortality , Young AdultABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the reasons for the alterations of the conclusions in re-assessment for personal disability in road traffic accidents, work-related accidents and other accidents. METHODS: Forty five cases of re-assessing the personal disability from 2007 to 2009 in our institute were collected and analyzed. RESULTS: The disability grade of 12 cases (26.7%) was altered in re-assessment. The reasons for the alternation included assessment standard items misquoted, assessment time mischosen, injury misdiagnosed and omitted, artificial prostheses mismanaged, injury-disease relationship erroneous judgment and disability grade promoted incorrectly. CONCLUSION: The attention for assessment of disability grade should been paid to correct time for assessment, correct items of identification standard, appropriate medical and forensic technology, and correct understand about all relevant regulations.
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Accidents, Traffic , Diagnostic Errors , Disability Evaluation , Forensic Pathology , Wounds and Injuries/diagnosis , Accidents, Occupational , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Craniocerebral Trauma/diagnosis , Expert Testimony , Female , Fractures, Bone/diagnosis , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Young AdultABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To study the injury modes, the injury characteristics, the disability grade assessments and other relative problems in eye injuries after traffic accidents. METHODS: Eighty four ocular disability cases after traffic accidents collected from March 2007 to March 2009 in our institute were retrospectively analyzed. Then to study the ocular disability reasons, the assessment time and methods. RESULTS: The main cause of ocular disability is visual dysfunction, and the other causes for example eyeball missing, injury of eyelid, injury of lacrimal apparatus, traumatic cataract and defect of visual field were rare relatively. Most ocular injuries happened to single eye. The disability grades were often from VII to X. CONCLUSION: The accuracy of visual function expertise could be improved by using some tests and visual electrophysiological measurements. The vision and ophthalmology data before the injury of the wounded who has intrinsical disease should be provided. The assessment time should be delayed for people whose visual function still may change.
