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

  • (special knowledge + skill for investigation, make conclusion)

2. Forensic Medical Examiner

  • (Human body, corpse, examination)
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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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Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Training Guide

ZERO CONDITIONAL

Structure: IF + PRESENT SIMPLE,……PRESENT SIMPLE

Examples:

  1. If a patient has difficulty breathing, we administer oxygen immediately.
  2. Give a patient an injection of epinephrine if he has a severe allergic reaction.
  3. When a patient experiences chest pain, we conduct an electrocardiogram to assess heart activity.
  4. A paramedic administers intravenous fluids to raise a patient’s blood pressure when it drops significantly.
  5. Prepare to assist ventilations if the patient’s condition doesn’t improve.
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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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Child Abuse: Detection, Investigation, and Evaluation

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

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Nursing 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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