Medicolegal Death Investigation and Thermal Injuries

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Medicine - Pathology, grade: 1, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, language: English, abstract: This document describes the most common types of thermal injuries in-depth from the perspective of the medico-legal death investigator. It cites the latest knowledge in order to compare and contrast thermal injuries, provides data on how a death investigator can distinguish between injury types, and explores the effects of exposure to different heat sources on the body. The text also advises the death investigator on how to establish identity and cause of death, even when a body has been badly disfigured.