Syllabus
Forensic medicine, its position in medicine and forensic sciences. Conception of forensic medicine services. Medico-legal questions.Main legal enactments.
Presentation of autopsy findings (sudden death, violent death).
Examination of dead bodies. Post-mortem changes. Estimation of the time since death.
Pathomorphology, diagnosis and causes of sudden death, its specialties. Most common causes of sudden death. Autopsy protocol and diagnosis. Presentation of autopsy findings.
Diagnosis of causes of violent death. Forensic medicine implication (accident, suicide, homicide). Bodily harm. Grievous bodily harm.Injury and handicap compensation. Injury and illnes and tumors.
Introduction in forensic toxicology. Metabolism of noxious agents, biotransformation. Distribution and excretion with regard to physico-chemical properties of substances. Possibilities of detection in different biological samples, temporal detection windows.
Ethanol, volatile and industrial substances. Overdoses by medicaments and abuse of addictive drugs.
Laboratory examinations in toxicology. Application of analytical methods and interesting toxicological case reports.
Injury caused by blunt and sharp object. Firearm injury. Thermic injury. Electrocution. Injury by lightning, dysbarism and barotruma, ionizing radiation.
Overview of laboratory methods in forensic medicine.
Traffic accidents.
Suffocation and asphyxia.
Identification. Closing colloqium.
Students take part in demonstration of autopsy findings in autopsy room every day.
Annotation
Patomorphology of natural and violent death with demonstrations of autopsy findings, compilation of autopsy diagnosis with interpretation of findings and laboratory tests of forensic toxicology, forensic genetics and biology.
Forensic medical qualification of a health disorder (personal injury and serious injury). The role of forensic medicine in criminal and civil proceedings. Use of dentistry in identification.