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MBBS year 2
Forensic Medicine notes
The whole subject in the order it is taught, 122 topics. Open any one to read it.
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Mechanical Injuries & Wounds
- Mechanical Injuries: Definitions & Classification
- Abrasions (incl. Ageing & Antemortem vs Postmortem)
- Bruise (Contusion): Mechanism & Ageing
- Bruise Look-alikes: True vs False Bruise & Postmortem Hypostasis
- Laceration & Its Types
- Lacerated-Looking (Split) Incised Wound
- Sharp-Force Wounds: Incised vs Stab (incl. Hara-Kiri)
- Head Injury: Coup, Contrecoup & Lucid Interval
- Electrical & Lightning Burns: Joule Burn vs Filigree Burn
- Grievous Hurt (IPC 320) & Starvation Death
Forensic Psychiatry
Thermal & Electrical Injuries
Firearm Injuries
Autopsy & Examination of the Dead
Death & Postmortem Changes
- Death: Definition & Bishop's Tripod of Life
- Types of Death: Somatic, Molecular, Brain & Suspended Animation
- Suspended Animation (Apparent Death)
- Postmortem Changes: Classification & Immediate Changes
- Algor Mortis & Postmortem Caloricity
- Postmortem Hypostasis (Livor Mortis)
- Rigor Mortis & Cadaveric Spasm
- Stiffening of the Dead Body: Heat & Cold Stiffening
- Putrefaction: Marbling & Liquefaction
- Preservation of the Dead Body: Adipocere, Mummification & Embalming
- Brainstem Death: Criteria & Legal Aspect
- Special Autopsies: Newborn, Adult & Criminal Abortion
Identification & Forensic Anthropology
- Identification: Definitive & High-Value Methods
- Fingerprints, Cheiloscopy & Rugoscopy
- Superimposition & Tattoo Marks
- Cephalic Index & Skull Types
- Examination of a Bundle of Bones
- Sex Determination from Skeletal Remains
- Age Estimation & Gustafson's Method
- Examination of Injuries, Time Since Death & Cause of Death
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Corpus Delicti
- Medicolegal Importance of Age: 16, 18 & Majority
Asphyxial Deaths
- Asphyxia: Definition & Classification
- Hanging: Antemortem Autopsy Findings
- Antemortem vs Postmortem Hanging
- Hanging vs Strangulation
- Autoerotic & Cafe Coronary & Traumatic Asphyxia
- Drowning: Types & Autopsy Findings
- Freshwater vs Saltwater Drowning
- Paltauf's Spots, Gettler's Test & Prinsloo-Gordon Artifact
- Drowning: Emphysema vs Edema Aquosum & Postmortem Immersion
Forensic Sexology & Obstetrics
- Virginity
- Artificial Insemination
- Signs of Pregnancy
- Superfecundation, Superfetation & Medicolegal Importance of Marriage
- Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act
- Abortion & Criminal Abortion
- Legal Aspects of Abortion (BNS Sections)
- Foeticide, Neonaticide, Infanticide & Viability
- Live Born vs Stillborn (Dead Born)
- Tests for Live Birth (Hydrostatic, Breslau's, Wreden's)
- Battered Baby Syndrome & SIDS
Sexual Offences
Medical Jurisprudence & Law
- Inquest: Police vs Magistrate's Inquest
- Dying Declaration vs Dying Deposition
- Professional Secrecy & Privileged Communication
- Professional Misconduct
- Medical Negligence & Its Types
- Medical Negligence: Examples & Defences
- Consent: Essentials & Types
- Informed Consent & Patient Autonomy
- Age, Consent & When Consent Is Not Needed
- Res Ipsa Loquitur vs Novus Actus Interveniens
- Euthanasia
- POCSO Act, 2012
Toxicology — General Principles
Toxicology — Specific Poisons
- Snake Bite — Classification & Identifying Venomous Snakes
- Snake Bite — Clinical Features & Management
- Ethanol Poisoning — Metabolism & Stages of Intoxication
- Chronic Alcoholism, Drunkenness & Delirium Tremens
- Methanol Poisoning
- Strychnine Poisoning & Differentiation from Tetanus
- Cardiac Poisons & Aconite Poisoning
- Legal Duties of a Doctor in Poisoning Cases
- Chelating Agents, Vitriolage & Carbolic Acid Poisoning
- Heavy Metal Poisoning — Arsenic, Mercury & Lead
- Phosphorus Poisoning (Phossy Jaw)
- Deliriant & Euphoriant Plant Poisons — Datura & Cannabis
- Opium, Organophosphorus & Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning
- Body Packer Syndrome & Cocaine Bugs