medico-legal investigation of narcotics & other drug involved deaths

Medico-legal aspect of amphetamine-related deaths.

The subject of the work included 41 cases of death in which amphetamine was involved as the direct or indirect cause. Identification and determination of xenobiotics in blood samples collected from post-mortem cases were performed by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionisation (HPLC-ESI-MS-MS). Only for two cases was the cause of dea...

Medico-legal evaluation of deaths due to decapitation

Decapitation of bodies is a rare event in the civilian setting and is reported to account for approximately 0.1 % of medico-legal autopsies. Suicidal decapitation is a very rare method of self-destruction. In suicidal decapitation, the favored method is the one involving trains. Other encountered methods are decapitation in suicidal hanging, vehicle-assisted ligature suicide. Though being encou...

Progress in medico-legal investigation of gunshot injuries.

Stains Other Than Blood-Stains as Medico-Legal Evidence

On one point an important difference of opinion may exist between medico-legal workers: should a positive chemical test, in the absence of finding spermatozoa under the microscope, be accepted a& evidence of semen ? Some are in favour of doing so (Bagchi, 1937), others against (Owens, 1935; Thomas, 1937; Kamath, 1938; Glaister, 1938; McNally, 1939; Modi, 1940; Rhodes, 1940) and yet others appea...

Medico legal issues.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

A Medico-Legal Case

On fhp 3rd August 1902 I held the post-mortem examination on the body of a native female child aged about 4 The ooiice reported that about 15 days before her death shT was accidentally kicked by her brother-in-law, aubsem,tntlv 3 days before her death, she was thrown on the ground'by the same brother-in-law from the lap of her 81 The child's mother brought her to the Campbell Hospital where she...