[The expert evaluation of the cases of death from burn disease during the delayed post-traumatic period]. / Ékspertnaia otsenka sluchaev smerti ot ozhogovoi bolezni v otdalennom posttravmaticheskom periode.

This article was designed to report the results of the comprehensive clinical and morphological analysis of the cases of death from the complications of burn disease based on the available medical documentation, the results of autopsies, and the data obtained in the histological and biochemical investigations. The study made it possible to reveal and identify the most typical, reliable, and stable intravital clinical and laboratory features of sepsis developing in burned individuals as well as postmortem pathomorphological and biochemical changes characterizing this condition supposed to be the immediate cause of death. The results of the study may be used to enhance the objectiveness and the level of evidence of expert conclusions concerning the cause of death of the patients presenting with burn disease and developing complications during its late period.

[The current state-of-the-art of the expert evaluation of medical documentation pertaining to the cases of death from an injury inflicted in a healthcare facility in the late; post-traumatic period].

This article presents a concise review of the literature data concerning the modern methods for the expert evaluation of medical documentation as an object of forensic medical examination. The authors lay special emphasis on the practical significance of this issue for the scientifically sound substantiation of the results of forensic medical expertise carried out for the elucidation of the causes of death and the relationship between the injury and the outcome of the medical aid provided for its treatment. The expert evaluation of medical documentation is equally important for the assessment of the harm to health and the cause of death as a consequence of a thermal and/or mechanical injury inflicted during the hospital stay and in the late post-traumatic period.