Essentials of Autopsy Practice
Subtitle: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice
By: edited by Guy N. Rutty
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer London; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780857295194
Subjects: Medicine; Pathology; Medical jurisprudence; Medicine & Public Health
Description: <p><i>Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice</i> is the fifth volume in the <i>Essentials in Autopsy Practice</i> series, covering topics of current and future interest. Designed to keep all involved in the investigation of death abreast of changes within the field, this volume covers a wide range of topical areas which can be encountered around the world.</p><p><i>Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice</i> covers death by drowning; deaths from extreme temperature; the radioactive autopsy; chemical contamination and the autopsy; blast injuries; forensic odontology identification; and determination of the force used to cause an injury.</p><p>Useful to both trainees and consultants in all specialty areas within pathology, including forensic pathology, <i>Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice</i> also serves as a guide to all those involved in death investigation, i.e. nurses, lawyers, paramedics and police officers.</p>
Table of contents: title: <p>Diatom and Laboratory Tests to Support a Conclusion of Death by Drowning; title: Deaths from Extremes of Temperature; title: The Radioactive Autopsy; title: Chemical Contamination and the Autopsy; title: Blast Injuries; title: A Pathologists Guide to Forensic Odontology Identification; title: How Much Force?</p>.