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Heart and pericardial rupture due to blunt trauma as a result of assault. In: 3rd European Academy of Forensic Science Meeting, Istambul, 2003.
No full textCrime scene and body alterations caused by arthropods: implications in death investigation
No full textThe activity of arthropods on corpses has been largely investigated, since they can produce information to reconstruct the peri-mortem events. However, the feeding/movement activity of insects around the crime scene, among the clothes and on the body, can also cause some alterations that can lead to wrong reconstruction and misinterpretations. This article summarises all the post-mortem arthropods artefacts related to the scene (i.e. fly artefacts and floor stripes) and the body (i.e. skin and other soft tissue alterations, bone alterations and hair alterations) that can mislead the forensic pathologist, discussing macroscopic and microscopic findings derived from forensic casework and from experimental laboratory studies, in order to provide a useful instrument to avoid misinterpretations and evaluation errors. Finally, some procedural notes for the documentation and the interpretation of findings are proposed
Intossicazione mortale da gas di scarico di automobile nel settorato medico-legale padovano
No full textMedical litigation as a result of awareness during general anaesthesia: a case report
No full textIn the literature, little attention has been paid to the medico-legal implications of awareness during general anaesthesia, a complication which has been reported with an incidence of 0.5-2%. We present the case of a 39-year-old nurse who experienced awareness during salpingo-adnexectomy for tubo-ovarian pregnancy. The operation was performed as an emergency, due to severe haemorrhage. Anaesthesia was induced with 125 mg of thiopental sodium and 60 mg of succinylcholine, and then maintained with repeated doses of fentanyl and 7 mg of vecuronium. In the court settlement, medical liability was rejected, because her awareness during anaesthesia was ascribed to the need to use small quantities of anaesthetics, due to severe hypotension, and not to medical error. The case presented here and a brief review of the literature indicate that awareness during anaesthesia is not always a consequence of medical negligence
Su un particolare caso di identificazione personale e di diagnosi di morte violenta in resti scheletrici
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