Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess characteristics wounds on body if present and effect constriction externally as well internally underlying structures neck in throttling traumatic asphyxia. Methods: Collection data was done from record autopsies conducted cases asphyxia among violent asphyxial deaths mortuary associated with Department Forensic Medicine Toxicology, Governm...

Introduction It was nearly 150 years ago that an association between perinatal events and brain injury was first reported, claiming that “the act of birth does occasionally imprint upon the nervous and muscular systems of the infantile organism very serious and peculiar evils” [1]. While a great deal is now known about this association and the pathophysiology behind it, the quantification of th...

introduction: newborns should be evaluated immediately after birth and the traditional way of assessing is to use the apgar score. the aim of this study was to estimate the apgar score and evaluate the first 24 hour- clinical outcome of babies born at yazd hospitals. methods: in a descriptive cross-sectional study, apgar score was assessed for 462 newborns at the 4 centers of afshar, madar, kar...