GOLDEN RULES

Rules for Medical Legal AutopsyByDr. Amina Afzal Rao.KMS Medical College, Sialkot.IMPORTANT RULES AUTHORITY MUST BE CHECKED THOROUGH SCRUITINY OF POLICE PAPERSTAKE A DETAILED HISTORYPSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSYCOMPLETE EXAMINATION OF CLOTHES POST MORTEM STAINING WHOLE BODY TO BE EXAMINED

IF THERE IS SLIGHTEST SUSPICION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT . DO NOT WASH THE BODY .TAKE THE SWABS FIRST .EXAMINATION OF LIGATURE .NEVER UNTIE THE KNOT .LIGATURE MARK HOW TO COLLECT FIBER . NECK MUST BE OPENED AT THE END . Y SHAPED INCISSION . HYOID BONE . PLACING BACK OF HYOID BONE .VISCRAES TO CHEMICAL EXAMINER .CHAIN OF CUSTODYANOXIA .TYPES OF ANOXIA ANOXIC ANOXIA ANAEMIC ANOXIA STAGNANT ANOXIA HISTO TOXIC ANOXIA -ENVIRONMENTAL ASPHYXIA . INTRDOUCTION .HISTORY .GASES CO2, CO,SO2, METHANE, H2S SOURCES OF GASES:- AUTOPSY FINDINGS:- .NSPFA .SPECFIC FINDINGS MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS CLASSIFICATION OF MECHANICAL ASPHYXIA LEVEL TYPE OF MECHANICAL ASPHYXIA NOSE AND MOUTH -SUFFOCATIONS (SMOTHERING AND GAGGING) GLOTTIS HANGING LARYNX AND TRACHEA STRANGULATION,THROTTLING TRACHEA AND CHOKING MAIN BRONCHUS

MUSCLES OF TRAUMATIC ASPHYXIA RESPIRATION

COMPLEX MANNER AUTO EROTIC SUFFOCATION .INTRODUCTION .TYPES SMOTHERING .DEFINITION . AUTOPSY FINDINGS . CLOTHES . NSPFA SPECFIC FINDINGS:- . AT THE LOCUS EXTERNAL INTERNAL AWAY FROM THE LOCUS MECHANISM OF DEATH MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS

HANGING:- . INTRODUCTION . PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY . TYPES . COMPLETE . INCOMPLETE/ PARTIAL . TYPICAL . A TYPICAL . JUDICAL HANGING MECHANISM OF DEATH . VAGAL STIMULATION AND CARDIAC INHIBITION . CEREBRAL ANOXIA . ASPHYXIA . FRACTURE DISLOCATION OF CERVICAL VERTEBRAE AND DISLOCATION

AUTOPSY FINDINGS :- . CLOTHES . NSPFA . POST MORTEM STAINING . FACE.

. AT THE LOCUS . EXTERNAL LIGATURE LIGATURE MARK . INTERNAL . AWAY FROM THE LOCUS EXTERNAL INTERNAL

MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS HOMICIDAL/ SUICIDAL /ACCIDENTAL ANTE MORTEM/POST MORTEM

LIGATURE STRANGULATION .INTRODUCTION . DIFINITION . AUTOPSY FINDINGS .CLOTHES .NSPFA . FACE. . AT THE LOCUS

. EXTERNAL LIGATURELIGATURE MARK . INTERNAL . AWAY FROM THE LOCUS EXTERNAL INTERNAL MECHANISM OF DEATH . VAGAL STIMULATION AND CARDIAC INHIBITION . CEREBRAL ANOXIA . ASPHYXIA MANUAL STRANGULATION ( THROTTLING) . INTRODUCTION . DIFINITION . AUTOPSY FINDINGS .CLOTHES .NSPFA . FACE. . AT THE LOCUS (ON NECK)

.EXTERNAL .INTERNAL .AWAY FROM THE LOCUS EXTERNAL INTERNAL MECHANISM OF DEATH . VAGAL STIMULATION AND CARDIAC INHIBITION . CEREBRAL ANOXIA . ASPHYXIA MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS HOMICIDAL / ACCIDENTAL / SUICIDAL FRACTURE OF HYOID BONE IMPORTANCE OF FRACTURE OF HYOID BONE IN PORTIFIED DEAD BODIES . HEART