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- Pathology Outlines - Asphyxia
Mechanical asphyxia: asphyxia due to impaired breathing secondary to the body being in an unnatural position or severe compression to the neck, chest or other areas of the body that make respiration difficult or impossible (positional asphyxia, traumatic asphyxia, smothering, choking and strangulation)
- Pathology Outlines - Drowning
Forensic pathology - Drowning is respiratory impairment (asphyxia) due to inhalation of water following submersion in liquid
- Cause, manner, mechanism of death death certificate
Mechanism of death: immediate physiologic derangement resulting in death (e g , hemorrhage, sepsis, asphyxia), which is not etiologically specific Accurate and timely determination of the cause and manner of death are important for many reasons, including for the benefit of the decedent's family, vital statistics, public health implications and
- Pathology Outlines - Autopsy forensics
Types of injuries: asphyxia blunt force injuries child abuse (pending) drowning elder abuse environmental deaths forensic entomology forensic evaluations of brain contusions forensic evaluations of spine and spinal cord traumatic injury forensic evaluations of traumatic axonal injury gunshot wounds sharp force injuries sudden cardiac death
- Pathology Outlines - Nuchal cord
If the umbilical cord begins to constrict around the neck, vascular occlusion of the umbilical vessels and subsequent decreased venous return from the placenta can lead to asphyxia In type A nuchal cord, the placental end of the umbilical cord crosses over the fetal end, allowing the ability for the nuchal cord to undo itself in time (an "unlocked" nuchal cord) In a type B nuchal cord, the
- Pathology Outlines - Postmortem changes
Forensics autopsy - Postmortem changes Postmortem changes refers to a continuum of changes that occur in a dead body following death; these changes include livor mortis, rigor mortis, decomposition and taphonomy (StatPearls: Evaluation of Postmortem Changes [Accessed 1 July 2020]) Given the postmortem changes and the rate of change are influenced by many variables, it is not possible to
- Pathology Outlines - Sharp force injuries
Sharp force injuries are injuries produced by sharp objects
- Pathology Outlines - Autopsy techniques
Anterior approach is commonly done in daily practice to assess injury to the neck structures, including if sustained pressure to the neck as a cause of or contributor to death (see Asphyxia)
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