Full Description
Multidisciplinary Medico-legal Death Investigation: Role of Consultants is the only book in the field that focuses on the role consultants have in medical examiner/coroner offices. The book provides a multidisciplinary view on the topic by including specialized fields, such as anesthesiology, surgery, radiology, including CT scan, pediatrics, cardiology-electrophysiology, cardiac pathology, forensic anthropology and odontology, firearms examination, firearms, eye pathology and psychiatry/psychology. Coverage also includes chapters on specialized topics, including high profile cases, the media, business continuity planning, envenomations, the importance of quality assurance and peer review, and quality assurance in a medico-legal death investigation office.
This one-of-a-kind resource is ideal for those in the medico-legal death investigation field and professionals in the criminal and civil justice system.
Contents
1. Role of the CardiacElectrophysiologist
2. Role of the Consultant in Pediatrics
3. Role of the Consultant in Forensic Radiology
4. Role of the Consultant in Anesthesia
5. Role of the Consultant in Surgery
6. Role of the Consultant in Forensic Odontology
7. Role of the Consultant in Forensic Anthropology
8. Role of the Consultant in Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry
9. Role of the Cardiac Pathologist in Evaluating Sudden Natural Deaths
10. Envenomations and the Forensic Pathologist
11. High Profile Cases
12. Quality Assurance in a Medical Examiner-Coroner Office
13. Business Continuity Planning in a Medical Examiner-Coroner Office
14. Firearms - Special Topics
15. Virtual Autopsy and CT Scans
16. Eye Pathology
17. Firearms Examiner
18. Quality Assurance and Peer Review
