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TRUE/FALSE: A body decomposing on a summer day will typically show increased progression of rigor mortis
TRUE/FALSE: Forensic entomology is often used to help estimate the time of death.
entails weighing, dissecting, and sectioning each organ of the body. When required microscopic examination of the sectioned organs is conducted, this can help in determining the cause of death. Examination of the cranium requires cutting an incision from behind one ear to the other, peeling the scalp upward and backward, and sawing of the skull in a circular cut; then the skull cap is removed to reveal the brain.
TRUE/FALSE: After death, the body does not cool at a predictable rate
TRUE/FALSE: Livor mortis occurs when blood settles in parts of the body closest to the ground
TRUE/FALSE: Rigor mortis occurs within 12 hours of death and disappears within 24 hours
TRUE/FALSE: For gunshot victims, the cause of death can be listed as a gunshot wound.
TRUE/FALSE: The primary role of the medical examiner is to determine the cause and manner of death
TRUE/FALSE: The external examination involves classifying the injuries and examining the organs.
TRUE/FALSE: It is not feasible for a medical examiner to respond in-person to every death scene
TRUE/FALSE: The two types of autopsies are a clinical autopsy and a hospital autopsy
initiates the series of events ending in death. The most important determination in a violent death is the character of the injury that started the chain of events that resulted in death.
Primary problem involved in von willebrand disease is...
avid what analgesic for pts taking Antithrombocytopenic agents
pts with platelet count below 20,000 manifest what
platelest count is effective for identifying pts with what
Most common inherited bleeding disorder and effects 1%
what is the least expensive most widely used and most studied antiplatelet drug
Von willebrand disease in an inherited gene mutation on what chromosome
death rate from al cancers combined has _____ over the last 10 years