Victor W Weedn
Victor W Weedn
The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) is the only medicolegal death investigation system of the US federal government. Its origins can be traced to three dried tissue specimens placed on a shelf by a Civil War Surgeon General in ...
The Social History of Disaster Victim Identification in the United States, 1865 to 1950 [0.03%]
美国灾害遇难者身份识别的社会史（1865-1950）
Vicki Daniel
Vicki Daniel
This paper will trace the history of DVI from nineteenth-century practices of sight recognition to contemporary DVI, detailing when and how different technologies used in DVI entered the disaster morgue. Much of this history is defined by i...
Letter From the Editor-In-Chief [0.03%]
主编寄语
Dr Christopher Milroy
Dr Christopher Milroy
Letter From the Editor-In-Chief [0.03%]
主编来信
Christopher M Milroy
Christopher M Milroy
Christopher M Milroy
Christopher M Milroy
Contained Myocardial Rupture [0.03%]
心脏破裂
Rhome Hughes,Walter Kemp
Rhome Hughes
Hostage Situation Homicide [0.03%]
劫持人质杀人事件
Samuel P Prahlow,Joseph A Prahlow
Samuel P Prahlow
Deaths related to hostage situations occur in many forms, as these situations can easily escalate as a result of many confounding variables. When approaching such cases, forensic pathologists and death investigators should be mindful of the...
Kasey Kreutz,Travis Danielsen,Reade A Quinton
Kasey Kreutz
In 1987, a case report was published in the German journal Archiv für Kriminologie describing an apparently novel method of suicide in which the decedent produced a lethal amount of carbon monoxide by mixing formic acid and sulfuric acid. ...
Rohan Ruwanpura,Chathura Nandasiri
Rohan Ruwanpura
We report a case of homicidal paraquat poisoning preceded by attempted manual strangulation. The poison had been forcibly ingested when the victim was unconscious due to pressure on the neck. The victim survived for ten days and died due to...
Forensic Considerations in a Series of 14 Deaths of Patients with a Left Ventricular Assist Device [0.03%]
左心室辅助装置(LVAD)相关死亡的法医病理学分析
Peter T Lin,Sarah Thomas
Peter T Lin
Introduction: To better understand the forensic implications of death with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), we reviewed all deaths that were reported to a regional medical examiner jurisdiction involving patients ...