BACKGROUND We examined forensic serum toxicology and pharmacogenomics data from a woman on codeine shortly before she caused a motor vehicle accident. METHODS A woman driving erratically collided with a parked car of a highway seriously injuring 2 men working to repair the parked vehicle. The woman tested positive for codeine, acetaminophen and barbital. She had been taking these medications ...

Although death is a gradual process, sometimes sudden death occurs in a fraction of a minute or seconds. Here we report a 49-year-old man without any underlying disease, which has instantly died in an accident scene due to compression of neck critical elements by a three-point seat belt. The examination of the body and the results of the autopsy, toxicology and pathology tests are described fro...

Workplace drug testing is a well-established application of forensic toxicology and it aims to reduce workplace accidents caused by affected workers. Several classes of abused substances may be involved, such as alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, opiates and also prescription drugs, such as benzodiazepines. The use of alternative biological specimens such as hair, oral fluid or sweat in ...

very year American dictionaries add new words that have become so common that they are considered mainstream. In the area of medicolegal death investigation, “virtopsy” is trending in that direction. Most of us who work in the areas of forensic medicine and forensic toxicology have heard of the virtual autopsy—an autopsy based more on imaging than physical examination—for which the alias virtop...

*Corresponding author: Department of Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. E-mail: [email protected] Le tte r t o Ed ito r Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Kidneys are particularly susceptible to toxic injury because they receive 20-25% of cardiac output yet make up less than 1% of total bo...

Abstract The measurement of trace elements in nails and hairs has advantages relative to other body tissues they have been increasingly used forensic clinical toxicology as a complementary test. Complementary hair nail analysis can indicate the amount for long periods time. In this study, samples were collected from city Hamedan quantitative elemental concentration was measured by PIXE techniqu...

A male common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) was found dead in a field April 2019 the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and submitted to Department for Protection Animals Environment cantonal police Zurich. Because is protected species, carcass forwarded Poultry Rabbit Diseases, University forensic examination. On necropsy, profuse internal haemorrhage without causal trauma observed, leading suspicio...

Supercritical fluid and microbore liquid chromatography offer potential applications for drug analysis. In supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), the mobile phase is a gas (e.g., carbon dioxide) maintained at its supercritical state--that is, above its critical temperature and pressure, above which it cannot be liquefied even with further increases in applied pressure. The SFC mobile phase h...

very year American dictionaries add new words that have become so common that they are considered mainstream. In the area of medicolegal death investigation, “virtopsy” is trending in that direction. Most of us who work in the areas of forensic medicine and forensic toxicology have heard of the virtual autopsy—an autopsy based more on imaging than physical examination—for which the alias virtop...

Methoxetamine ((RS)2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone)) is becoming a drug of interest among practitioners of forensic toxicology. In this case report, we describe the case background, standard field sobriety tests, sampling, and analysis of this drug in a whole blood sample as well as screening methods and analysis from a driver operating under the influence of intoxicating substa...