Multidisciplinary medico-legal death investigation : role of consultants /: role of consultants. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, Christopher B. Rogers.
• Editors: Sathyavagiswaran, Lakshmanan; Rogers, Christopher B
• Contents: Front Cover; Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Role of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Consultant; Introduction; Pacemakers; Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators; Risk to the Pathologist from ICD at Autopsy; New Pacemaker and ICD Devices; Other Implanted Cardiac Devices; Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; 2 Pediatric Consultation: the Value of a Clinical Perspective; Introduction: The Role of the Pediatrician; Child Death Review Teams; Pediatrics and Prevention Death Scene InvestigationsFall down a Flight of Steps; Fall from a Balcony; Fall off a Cliff; Fall on the Kitchen Floor; Failure to Thrive; Failure to Thrive, Dehydration, and Drug Exposure; Medical Neglect; Leukemia and Prayer; Asthma; Morbid Obesity; Substance Abuse; Maternal Substance Abuse during Pregnancy; Postnatal Substance Exposure: "SIDS" and Amphetamines; Adolescent Alcohol Consumption; Too Much Manischewitz; Genetic Disorders; Familial Neonatal Hemochromatosis; Trauma; Blunt Abdominal Trauma and Mother's Boyfriend; Undetermined Deaths; Case: Dating Rib Fractures; Conclusion TortureElder Abuse; Other Less Common Aspects of Forensic Radiology; Imaging of Contraband, Smuggling of Illegal Drugs; Forensic Examination of Scuba Diving Accidents with Air Embolus; Forensic Radiography for Evaluation of a Murder; Forensic Evaluation of Iatrogenic Deaths; References; 4 The Role of Virtual Autopsy and Use of a CT Scanner in Medico-Legal Death Investigations; References; 5 Anesthesiology Consults at the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office; Introduction; Questions About Anesthesia Consults; What Cases Should Have an Anesthesiology Consult? Purpose of a Coroner's Anesthesia ConsultationHow Is the Community Standard of Anesthesia Care Established?; The Process of an Anesthesia Consultation; Other Consultant Activities; Qualifications for a Consultant; Data and Cases From the Anesthesia Consults; Illustrative Cases; A Case of Position Problems; A Case of a New Procedure; A Case of Old Drugs, the Local Anesthetics; A Case of Aspiration of Teeth During Oral Sedation; Lessons Learned; The Future; References; Further Reading; Appendix A. Definitions; 6 Coroners' Surgical Consultation: Q rdr H TO; Introduction; Background
• Publisher Details: London : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 614/.1; Dead -- Identification; Forensic pathology; Consultants; MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL / Public Health; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128138199
• Related ISBNs: 012813819X; 9780128138182
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 13, 2018).
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