Medicolegal autopsy administration

Autopsy utilization in medicolegal defense of anesthesiologists.

BACKGROUND The rate of autopsy in hospital deaths has declined from more than 50% to 2.4% over the past 50 yr. To understand the role of autopsies in anesthesia malpractice claims, we examined 980 closed claims for deaths that occurred in 1990 or later in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Closed Claims Project Database. METHODS Deaths with autopsy were compared with deaths without aut...

Medicolegal Study of Dry Thermal Burn Autopsy in Varanasi, India

Introduction: Dry thermal burns are one of the most devastating conditions encountered in health. The dry thermal burns injury represents an assault on all aspects of the patient, from the physical to the psychological. Autopsy has previously been shown to be a useful retrospective diagnostic tool; however we challenge its reliability as a result of our study. The percentage of TBSA involved is...

Sudden death due to an unrecognized cardiac hydatid cyst: three medicolegal autopsy cases.

Echinococcosis is a human infection caused by the larval stage of Echinococcocus granulosus. The most common sites of infection are the liver and the lungs. Cardiac hydatid cysts are very rare, even in regions where hydatic cysts are endemic (the Mediterranean, South America, Africa, and Australia). It has been reported that cardiac involvement is seen in about 0.5-3% of human echinococcosis ca...

Medicolegal Number

Common Medicolegal