Forensic Medicine: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications
1. Concept of Forensic Medicine, Structure, and Development
Structure
- 5 sections: Vilnius/Kaunas/Klaipeda/Siauliai/Panevezys
- 5 subsections: Alytus/Jurbarkas/Marijampole
- 5 Labs (NFMS) in Vilnius: Toxicology/Serology+DNA/Criminalist/Histology/Osteo
Expertises NFMS
- Dead bodies
- Living
- Deontological
- Toxicological
- Serological
- Cytological
- DNA
- Osteological
- Criminalistic
- Glucose [C]
Definition
1. Specialist
2. Forensic Medical Examiner
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Levels of Prevention: A Comprehensive Guide to Public Health Interventions
Levels of Prevention:
1
Primary
People healthy, time prevention to reduce risk factor(Healthy take Vitamin C); 2.
Secondary
People have disease, but early they don’t have symptoms, screen for early detect, improve outcome w/ early treatment (black marker test/gargling for sore throat); 3.
Tertiary
Have disease, symptomatic, limit disability, delay progression, improve quality of life (ex.Surgery/Paxlovid for COVID19)
Populations:1.Sample:
recruit in study, 2.
Source
:people eligible to be in study, 3.
Base
:
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ZERO CONDITIONAL
Structure: IF + PRESENT SIMPLE,……PRESENT SIMPLE
Examples:
- If a patient has difficulty breathing, we administer oxygen immediately.
- Give a patient an injection of epinephrine if he has a severe allergic reaction.
- When a patient experiences chest pain, we conduct an electrocardiogram to assess heart activity.
- A paramedic administers intravenous fluids to raise a patient’s blood pressure when it drops significantly.
- Prepare to assist ventilations if the patient’s condition doesn’t improve.
The Ethics of Animal Testing: Weighing the Benefits and Drawbacks
Suggestion Problem: World Hunger
Today, world hunger has reached truly shocking proportions. For various reasons, an estimated one billion people on our planet do not have enough to eat. But what can be done to deal with this problem?
To begin with, it is essential that we stop wasting food. For instance, 50% of food produced is thrown away annually. Some of it could be sent to starving countries instead. As a result, food would be provided to those in need.
Secondly, governments should help make farming
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The child abuse. Detection, investigation and evaluation
Child abuse has always existed. Children, over the centuries, have been regarded as private property of their parents, and at certain times, owned by the society in which they live. In the seventeenth century, the birth is the basis on which to support child welfare. In 1923, the drafting of the statement Gebbs rights of the child. In 1955, environmental and family factors began to be assessed as determinants of trauma. It was in 1959 when
Read MoreNursing Procedures: Brain Anatomy, Injections, and Catheterization
Brain Anatomy
Frontal Lobe: Movement, problem-solving, concentration, thinking, behavior, personality, mood
Motor Cortex: Movement of voluntary muscles
Sensory Cortex: Skin sensations (temperature, pain, pressure)
Temporal Lobe: Hearing, language, memory
Brain Stem: Consciousness, breathing, heart rate
Parietal Lobe: Sensations, language, perception, body awareness, attention
Occipital Lobe: Vision, perception
Cerebellum: Posture, balance, coordination of movement
Broca’s Area: Production of speech
Wernicke’
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