Evisceration
Be careful when removing the neck block to leave this structure long for future embalming.
What are the carotid arteries?
Before separating the lungs from the heart, one should check for this.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
The most common cause of death in the United States.
What is cardiovascular disease?
Removal of the superficial epithelial layer of skin by friction against a rough surface.
What is an abrasion?
The most common type of motor vehicle accident.
What is a front-impact crash?
The evisceration method employed to best assess organ to organ relationships.
What is Letulle?
The right adrenal gland can often be found attached to the underside of this organ.
What is the liver?
Not to be confused with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, this disease leads to an enlarged heart sometimes with associated left ventricular hypertrophy.
What is hypertensive heart disease?
An 83 year old woman comes into the morgue for autopsy following an altercation where she was struck multiple times with a baseball bat. You notice multiple blue-purple hemorrhagic areas beneath the skin. What will you call these?
What are contusions?
If a cars windshield shatters, it is common to see these injuries on a decedent.
What are dicing injuries?
The evisceration method that removes organs in functional blocks.
What is Ghon?
This technique may be used if one suspects esophageal varices.
What is inverting the esophagus?
In individuals with a history of seizures and no other findings at autopsy or scene investigation the classification of the death can be titled this.
What is sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP)?
This differentiates a laceration from an incised wound.
What are bridging fibers?
One of the most common fatal thoracic injuries resulting from an MVA.
What is an aortic laceration?
The Y incision begins at bilateral acromion processes, extends to the ________ and down an around the umbilicus to the level of the _____.
What are the xiphoid process and pubic bone?
When a pulmonary embolism is discovered in the pulmonary arteries, this additional special dissection technique should be performed.
What is examining the deep leg veins?
The most common natural cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage.
What is a berry aneurysm?
Atlanto-axial dislocations lead to a bobble head effect often with a fracture of this portion of the axis vertebrae.
What is the dens?
In MVAs where a vehicle catches on fire, this additional step should be taken at autopsy.
What is blood carboxyhemoglobin analysis?
When employing the Virchow method in a forensic setting, this organ block should be removed last to best assess for hemorrhage in the muscle layers.
What is the neck block?
A complete neck dissection is mostly performed for these types of cases.
What are asphyxial deaths?
A sudden death due to sepsis (neiserria meningitides) can cause bilateral adrenal hemorrhages termed this syndrome.
What is Waterhouse Friedrichsen syndrome?
This type of intracranial hemorrhage (1) is common in elderly people that fall often resulting from the laceration of this vessel (2).
What is subdural hemorrhage and the bridging veins?
In ALL fatal motor vehicle accidents this additional step is taken at autopsy.
What is ordering a complete toxicologic panel?