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Autopsy 1
AUTOPSY
Biomed
Cass Thompson
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Autopsy 2
Describe autopsy use in determining
cause and time of death.
– Definition and purpose
– Legal requirements
– Reasons for autopsy
– Preparation
– Procedure
– Results
– Methods to determine time of death
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Autopsy 3
Definition and purpose
• Autopsy or post
mortem examination
• A thorough examination of a body after death
to help determine:
– Why (cause of death)
– How (manner of death
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Autopsy 4
Legal Requirements
• Pathologist
• Medical examiner
• Coroner
• Define and tell me the
difference
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Autopsy 5
Pathologist
• Pathologist:– A doctor who has training and expertise in the
examination of body tissues and fluids
• Coroner*
• Medical examiner*
• *Government office responsible for investigation deaths that are important to the publics health and welfare
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Autopsy 6
Preparation
• If not required by law, permission needed from the next of kin
• Legal consent form
• Legally what deaths must be reported to and investigated by the medical examiner?
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Autopsy 7
Reasons for autopsy
• Why is it done ? • injury
• delayed complications of injuries
• poisoning
• infectious complications
• foul play
• people who die with no attending physician
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Autopsy 8
• Katrina
• Autopsies Planned for New Orleans Hospital Bodies
• by Robert Siegel
• All Things Considered, September 13, 2005 · Autopsies will be conducted on the bodies of 45 patients discovered at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans two weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck. Officials believe some of the patients may have died as they awaited assistance from emergency agencies. Robert Siegel talks with The Washington Post's Doug Struck.
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Autopsy 9
Procedure
• Complete medical
history and review of
records, including the
events leading to
death
HBO Autopsy Site http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/interactive/index.html
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Autopsy 10
External physical exam
• a. Body tag
• b. Weight and height
• c. Clothing and valuables identified
• d. Scars, tattoos, injuries, wounds, bruises recorded
• e. Foreign objects noted
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Autopsy 11
Photos and x-rays taken if neededJFK
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Autopsy 12
Complete internal exam
• a. Dissection of head and abdomen
• b. Organs removed, weighed, measured and examined
• c. Tissue samples examined under microscope
• d. Fluid samples tested for drugs, infection
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Autopsy 13
After autopsy complete, legal death
certificate
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Autopsy 14
Results
• 1. Natural death –
disease or old age
• 2. Unnatural death –
unnatural,
unexpected or
unusual cases
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Autopsy 15
Methods to determine time of death
• 1. Traditional indicators
• a. Rigor mortis
• b. Begins three hours after death in face and eyelid muscles
• c. Takes twelve hours to affect entire body
• d. Process reverses after 36 hours
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Autopsy 16
Rigor mortis
An unfortunate victim of suicide. Note that rigor mortis has maintained the
position of his arms after the shotgun has been removed.
Rigor mortis occurs because metabolic activity continues in the muscle after
death.
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Autopsy 17
Lividity (hypostasis)
• Visible 30-60 minutes
after death
• Red cells settle and
skin below turns red
• In 6-10 hours, color
becomes permanent
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Autopsy 18
Body temperature
• Falls at rate of one
degree per hour
• Obesity and warm
environment slows
cooling
Diagram showing how liver temperature, relative to room
temperature, determines time of death. Since the
temperature of a dead body falls at about one-and-a half
degrees per hour, the 87 degree liver temperature
indicates death at 6-7 hours before.
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Autopsy 19
• None of the above are totally reliable and can be manipulated
http://www.deathonline.net/what_happens/autopsy/autopsy_steps.cfm
http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/baden/qa_5.html
http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/titlpag1.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/coroner/coroner.html
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Autopsy 20
Lisa McPhearson
• You will be reading the actual autopsy report of Lisa’s death.
• You will complete a cause of death report and note injuries on the diagram.
• The following pictures are of Lisa.
• You will decide if her death was from natural or unnatural causes.
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Autopsy 21
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
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Autopsy 22
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Autopsy 23
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Autopsy 24
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Autopsy 25
Lividity
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Autopsy 26
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Autopsy 27
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Autopsy 28
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Autopsy 29
• First released Lisa McPherson Autopsy pictures
• Circuit Judge Bob Barker ruled on Thursday 27 February 1997 that autopsy photographs depicting insect bites on Lisa's body are public record (Tampa Tribune 28 February 1997 - SP Times 28 February 1997).
• Forensic entomologists identified over a hundred cockroach feeding sites on her body, and three nationally prominent forensic pathologists opined that the manner of death was "homicide". Pathologist Werner Spitz, M.D. wrote in his affidavit that "the insect bites appearing in the autopsy photographs ofLisa McPherson, and in particular on her hands and feet, are antemortemand peri-mortem/postmortem."
• In other words, bugs were feeding on Lisa before she died, while she was dying and after she had died. Perhaps it is for this reason that they found it necessary to bath a dead Lisa McPherson before they drove her to a hospital 45 minutes away so she could see an emergency room doctor who is a Scientologist, passing four other hospitals.
• And in any case, Scientology argues that postmortem cockroach bites are irrelevant, since Lisa could not personally experience the bites and trauma from it.
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Autopsy 30
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Autopsy 31
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Autopsy 32