Master Forensic Medicine with
"A Compilation of Injuries
and
Their Medico-Legal Analysis."
The essential pictorial guide for undergraduates and ERPM candidates, authored by Senior Lecturer and Consultant Forensic Pathologist Dr. H. T. D. W. Ariyarathna.
Why This Book?
This book is intended to serve as a practical and easy-to-use guide to help readers understand and remember the essential basic concepts and important details of forensic medicine. It is primarily designed for undergraduate medical students in Sri Lanka pursuing the MBBS degree, as well as medical graduates preparing for the ERPM examination and postgraduate qualifying examinations in forensic medicine. The book may also be useful to postgraduate trainees specialising in forensic medicine, lawyers, and other professionals who require a basic understanding of forensic medicine and its medico-legal applications.
Special Features
Expertly Curated Illustrations
A picture is worth a thousand words." Features rare and routine clinical photographs with descriptive legends to simplify complex concepts.
Exam-Focused Content
Specifically designed to help students pass viva voce and OSPE (Objective Structured Practical Examination) tests
Comprehensive Scope
Covers 19 essential chapters ranging from basic injuries and firearm trauma to child abuse and torture
Meet the Author
Prof. H. T. D. W. Ariyarathna
MBBS, DLM, MD, DMJ (Path) (Lond).
Dr. Ariyarathna is a Professor in Forensic Medicine and a Consultant in Forensic Pathologist with over 20 years of experience in teaching medical students and postgraduate students.
Explore the 19 Chapters
Basic types of injuries, fractures and a few selected internal injuries
Wound, injury and hurt
General Classification of Injuries/Wounds Based on the Aetiology
Abrasions
Bite marks
Imprint contusions/patterned contusions/ intradermal contusions
Lacerations
Sharp force trauma
Stab injuries
Association of more than one injury: complex injuries
Fractures
Ante-mortem vs postmortem injuries
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Injury patterns in forensic practice
Features of self -inflicted injuries (NSSI)
Injury patterns after a fall from a significant height
Cut throat injuries
Internal injuries due to trauma
Defense / Defence injuries
Category of hurt and compensation
Head injuries
Membranal haemorrhages
Secondary brainstem haemorrhages (Duret hemorrhages)
Subdural haemorrhage
Traumatic diffuse brain injury
Concussion
Diffuse axonal injury
What is amnesia
What is concussion
Transportation injuries
Rail track injuries
Injuries caused by road traffic injuries
Firearm injuries in forensic practice
Branches of ballistics
Classifications of firearms according to the property of the barrel
Wounding from firearms
Rifled firearms
Types of tissue injuries
Range of fire
Shotguns
What is test firing?
Gun powder residue examination
Difference between entry and exit wounds of a riffled firearm
Medico-legal aspects of burns, hypothermia, and corrosive burns
Severity of burn
Heat artefacts
Chemical burns (corrosive burns)
Electrocution
Lightening
Injuries due to explosives and medico-legal aspects
A basic classification of explosives
Burn injuries due to explosions
Deaths due to asphyxia and drowning
Introduction to asphyxia
A basic classification of asphyxia
Asphyxial features
Types of hanging
External injuries in suicidal hanging
Internal injuries due to pressure on the neck Gagging
Ligature strangulation
Manual strangulation
Smothering
Suffocation
Choking
Traumatic asphyxia
Positional asphyxia
Aspiration
Drowning
Child abuse and medico-legal aspects
Child maltreatment
Physical child abuse
Abusive Head Trauma (AHT)/ Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)
Management of the child
Sexual abuse and medico-legal aspects
Examination of suspected cases of sexual abuse
Legal definition of rape
Examination of alleged assailant
Anal examination
Medico-legal aspects of abortion and maternal deaths
Abortion
Medical definition according to the WHO
Maternal death
Medico-legal aspects of infant deaths
Infant deaths
SIDS (crib deaths)
Estimation of maturity and skeletal age by demonstration of ossification centres
Violence in families and in intimate relationships
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Gender Based Violence (GBV)
Elderly abuse
Torture and medico-legal aspects
Torture in medico-legal practice
Types of torture
What is the Istanbul Protocol (IP)?
Death in custody
Cocaine intoxication
Cocaine-Induced Excited Delirium
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Pepper spray or Oleoresin capsicum (OC)
Starvation and neglect in medico-legal practice
"A valuable learning tool for both the undergraduate and post-graduate students... especially when faculties are burdened with high student numbers."
Dr. Senarath M Colombage, Former Consultant Judicial Medical Officer.
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