1. MD’s get entrance/exit wrong about 50% of the time, per research – don’t go off of medical charts. Most doctors still go off of size of the wound, which is inaccurate. 2. Range of…
1. Dating bruises – bruises cannot be dated by color. IF yellow can be identified, one can determine that the bruise is at least 18 hours old. All other colors can be observed from the first…
Legal implications – civil: Non-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (stroke): For cases involving warfarin or Coumadin- was the patient’s lab work such as PT/INR adequately monitored? If the patient was suffering from Coumadin toxicity, what was the…
Types of hemorrhage Epidural hemorrhage is bleeding between the skull and outer covering of the brain, the dura matter. Epidural hemorrhages are frequently caused from a blunt trauma from an assault, fall or other accident. …
Causes: Non-traumatic Intracranial hemorrhage may have traumatic and non-traumatic causes. One non-traumatic cause is hemorrhagic stroke which accounts for 8%-13% of all strokes. Hemorrhagic strokes often have a poor prognosis resulting in death or major disability. …
Intracranial hemorrhage is an accumulation of blood inside the skull; in or around the brain that can have traumatic and non- traumatic causes. Bleeding may occur in the brain parenchyma (intercerebral) or in the surrounding coverings…
It has long been discussed if the unborn child had any rights. Criminalization of drug use during pregnancy opens a can of worms for the legal community.
In 2007, a young Mississippi woman was indicted by a grand jury for “depraved heart murder” which is defined as an act that results from the gross negligence of an individual. Read more about the…
Everything we eat and are exposed to has the potential of crossing the placental barrier. Illicit drugs are among substances that are correlated with fetal demise.
It is difficult to know exactly why a fetus dies in many cases. Find out more about causes and investigation of stillbirths here.
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