Impact Spatter & Factors
True or False: The greater the fall height of a blood drop, the greater the diameter will be.
What is True?
Luminol reacting with bleach gives this type of (blue, glowing) result.
What is a false positive?
Post Mortem Toxicology happens during this event, led by a medical examiner or coroner.
What is an autopsy?
This drug schedule has the lowest potential for abuse.
What is Schedule V (5)?
Forensic toxicologists perform analysis of drugs in biological samples, typically either (or both) of these two bodily fluids.
What are blood and urine?
[Half-credit available to getting only one of these.]
High Velocity Impact Spatter (HVIS) most often comes from this type of wound.
What is a gunshot wound?
Hemastix turn from yellow to this color in the presence of blood.
What is dark green?
The most publicly scrutinized type of toxicology tends to be this, especially regarding unexpected celebrity deaths.
What is Post Mortem Toxicology?
Confusingly, marijuana is in this drug schedule in the US.
What is Schedule I?
How much a surface absorbs of a bloodstain is called this factor.
What is porosity?
OR What is surface texture?
A slash wound can lead to passive drops, which are characterized as this type of impact spatter.
What is Low Velocity Impact Spatter (LVIS)?
The Kastle-Meyer Test turns this color in the presence of hemoglobin.
What is pink?
These are the three types of workplace drug testing.
What are pre-employment, random, and for-cause?
[Partial credit available]
These are the three factors on which drug schedules are based (supposedly).
What are the following?
1) Potential for substance abuse.
2) Accepted medical uses.
3) Safety / potential for addiction.
[Partial credit allowed for partially correct or incomplete guesses.]
In human performance toxicology, scientists try to determine the ______, _______, and ________ resulting from different patterns of drug/alcohol use.
What are timing, extent, and impairment?
[Partial credit available]
This is the type of spatter you would expect from a impact with a blunt weapon.
What is Medium Velocity Impact Spatter (MVIS)?
The Takayama Test reacts with the iron in blood to make these.
What are dark red crystals?
Sports require this type of toxicology.
What is doping control?
Fentanyl is on this US drug schedule.
What is Schedule II (2)?
This confirmatory test for blood functions similarly to a COVID test or pregnancy test.
What is immunoaffinity chromatography?
A passive blood drop that looks rather like a circle had this angle of impact.
What is between 75 deg and 90 deg?
Or what is close to 90 degrees?
The Kastle-Meyer Test uses this chemical indicator.
What is phenolphthalein?
There are rules in sporting events regarding performance enhancing drug use, in order to protect ___________ and to maintain __________.
What are "health/welfare of athletes" and "a fair/competitive standard?" (Or something akin to those)
[Half-credit available to those who only get one.]
Xanax is on this US drug schedule.
What is Schedule IV (4)?
This is the nickname for AB+ blood.
What is the universal recipient?