Autopsy ; legislation & jurisprudence ; standards ; Cause of Death ; Dissent and Disputes ; Forensic Pathology ; Humans ; Malpractice ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Medical Errors ; legislation & jurisprudence

Autopsy ; Biomedical Research ; ethics ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Brain ; pathology ; Humans ; Tissue Banks ; ethics ; legislation & jurisprudence

While the system of offering dowry to the groom by the parents of the bride at the time of the marriage is an age old one amongst the Hindus of India; during the recent past this evil custom has resulted in a large number of newly wed young housewives being either killed or tortured to end their own lives by their husbands and in-laws, for the unfulfilled demands or desire for dowry from the parents or guardians of the bride. Indeed in India today, torture of the young housewives by their husbands and in-laws for failure to bring insufficient dowry has become the order of the day all over the country. Some of them are burnt to death and others choose to die by fire; while still others are put to death by some means other than fire and disposed of by burning in order to hide the heinous offence. Hardly a day passes in the life of a forensic pathologist working in one of the states of Northern India, when he is not called upon to do an autopsy on the dead body of a burnt housewife who almost invariably is a married Hindu woman in the prime of her youth, between 15-30 years of age.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Autopsy ; Burns ; pathology ; Female ; Forensic Medicine ; methods ; Homicide ; Humans ; India ; Spouse Abuse ; legislation & jurisprudence

Karoshi remains one of the most troublesome issues in forensic identification. It is rather a social medicine than a clinical disease. Japanese scholars pioneered examining the relation between sud- den cardiac death (SCD) and chronic fatigue from long time and/or high-tension work. In the current case, a 55-year-old man, whose job was loading and carrying heavy cement bags, was found dead after 11 days of continuous hard work. His family members sued the cement factory for his death and claimed for compensation. The problem was the difficulty of identifying the causative relation without the precedent or the relevant regulations. However, the forensic problems were finally acknowledged after autopsy and calculation of labor intensity. The lawsuit was won as the first case pertaining to Karoshi in the Chinese court.
Autopsy ; Death, Sudden, Cardiac/etiology* ; Fatigue/mortality* ; Forensic Pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Risk Factors ; Workload/legislation & jurisprudence*

Medical tangles caused by the death of women and infants in perinatal period are very normal in the forensic appraisal. The author collected and analyzed 49 cases of these tangles from many aspects, such as sex and age of the dead, hospital,information of autopsy, fault of medical action and so on,and discovered the normal causes of death, medical action's effects and the causes of tangle. It would be useful to the forensic appraisal, settlement and prevention of these medical tangles.
Adult ; Asphyxia Neonatorum/mortality* ; Autopsy ; Cause of Death ; Female ; Forensic Pathology ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Malpractice/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Maternal Mortality ; Postpartum Hemorrhage/mortality* ; Pregnancy ; Respiratory Tract Diseases/mortality* ; Retrospective Studies ; Young Adult

OBJECTIVE: To analyze cause of medical accidents and actuality of technical identification in medical tangle. METHODS: 32 cases (17 death, 15 survive) of medical tangle by technical identification (according to sex, age, mostly diseases, sequel) and identified results (whether or not mistake, cause and effect connection, duty degree) have been studied. RESULTS: 13 cases of 32 medical accidents have been determined.19 cases have been attributed to no medical accidents. Causes of medical accidents were most due to negligence of sense of duty. CONCLUSION The incidence rate of medical accidents can be decreased by strengthen colligated stuff of medical affairs personnal. We suggest that our state bring out more perfect legislation of autopsy in order to gain positive effect of technical identification in medical tangle. The medical mistake among grade of medical accidents should be added so that justice of identification could be improved.
Accidents/mortality* ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Autopsy/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Cause of Death ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Expert Testimony/methods* ; Female ; Forensic Medicine ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Malpractice/statistics & numerical data* ; Medical Errors/statistics & numerical data* ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Young Adult

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the significance of forensic autopsy in medical tangle. METHODS: Ninety autopsy cases of medical legal dispute were retrospectively analyzed from the database of our department from 2001 to 2008. All cases were analyzed and classified based on age, sex, cause of death, clinic diagnosis and forensic diagnosis. RESULTS: The age ranged from 1 day to 72 years, and the ratios of male to female is 1:1. The most common healthcare facilities involved were county hospitals (30 cases, 33.33%). The coincidence rate between clinical diagnoses and pathological diagnoses was 33.33%. CONCLUSION The forensic autopsy is valuable to solve or even avoid the occurrence of medical legal dispute.
Adult ; Aged ; Autopsy ; Cardiovascular Diseases/pathology* ; Cause of Death ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Forensic Pathology ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Malpractice/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Middle Aged ; Respiratory Tract Diseases/pathology* ; Young Adult

OBJECTIVE: To explore procedures and methods of forensic investigation for the death cases of aortic dissection with disputes. METHODS: Twenty-one death cases of aortic dissection with disputes from 2006 to 2011 were collected. All the data were analyzed to investigate the reasons and features of the disputes. RESULTS: The main causes of the disputes were clinical misdiagnosis or slight force. The pathologic type of De Bakey (I and II) or Stanford A were common in each case. For the cases dying of aortic dissection, it was significantly important to detect the rupture of entry and exit and observe the dissection of arterial wall. CONCLUSION The main causes of clinical misdiagnosis are insufficient experiences, careless observation and curtness in medical treatment. The difficult points in these cases are confirmation of the relationships between injury and disease, the primary affection and complication.
Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Aortic Dissection/pathology* ; Aorta/pathology* ; Aortic Aneurysm/pathology* ; Autopsy ; Cause of Death ; Diagnostic Errors ; Female ; Forensic Pathology/methods* ; Humans ; Male ; Malpractice/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Middle Aged ; Violence ; Young Adult