Handbook for Death Scene Investigators

Jay Dix9780849302985, 0849302986

A handy pocket guide especially designed for a burgeoning new jobarena – death scene investigators. This will correspond nicely with Geberth’s Practical Homicide Investigation Checklist and Field Guide which has sold thousands of copies at the same price, and which focuses on homicide related deaths. This is broader, with information on sudden natural deaths by disease and accident. With the publication of Dix’s products along with our own DiMaio we’ll have every possible level of forensic pathology covered

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Table of contents :
Handbook for Death Scene Investigators……Page 1
Contents……Page 3
Preface……Page 4
Acknowledgments……Page 5
2. Establish Telephone Contact with the Death Scene……Page 6
Glossary……Page 0
5. Photographs of Decedent at Death Scene……Page 7
7. Examination of the Body……Page 8
9. Determine What Information Has Already Been Developed……Page 9
11. Interviews Regarding the Death……Page 10
12. Transporting the Body……Page 11
14. Family Notification……Page 12
15. The Investigative Report……Page 13
Blood at the Scene……Page 14
Vomitus……Page 15
Medication at the Scene……Page 16
General……Page 17
Head……Page 18
Extremities……Page 19
Skin……Page 20
Obtaining a Medical History……Page 22
Reviewing Medical Charts……Page 23
Firearms……Page 24
Stab Wounds……Page 26
Compression of the Neck……Page 27
Compression of the Chest (Postural Asphyxia)……Page 29
Drowning……Page 30
Electrocution……Page 31
Fire Deaths and Thermal Injuries……Page 32
Hyperthermia……Page 33
Contusions (Bruises)……Page 34
Lacerations (Tears)……Page 35
Motor Vehicle Occupant Injuries……Page 36
Blunt Head Trauma……Page 37
Battered Child Syndrome……Page 38
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Crib Death)……Page 39
Rigor Mortis……Page 41
Livor Mortis (Blood Settling)……Page 42
Body Cooling (Algor mortis)……Page 43
Determining Time of Death by Scene Investigation……Page 44
Decomposition……Page 45
Mummification……Page 46
Dental……Page 47
Skeletal Remains……Page 48
Circumstances Surrounding Death……Page 49
Scene Investigation……Page 50
Figure 1. Signs of CPR……Page 53
10. EKG patches……Page 54
Deaths in the Hospital……Page 55
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)……Page 56
Figure 2. Signs of Old Surgery……Page 57
16. Cutdown scar……Page 58
General and Specimen Collection……Page 59
The Procedure……Page 61
Gastric Contents……Page 62
The Report……Page 63
Anthropologist……Page 64
Criminalist……Page 65
Forensic Pathologist……Page 66
Radiologist……Page 67
Toxicologist……Page 68
Mechanism……Page 70
Manner……Page 71
A……Page 72
B……Page 73
C……Page 74
E……Page 75
G……Page 76
I……Page 77
M……Page 78
P……Page 79
S……Page 80
T……Page 81
V……Page 82
Classifications:……Page 83
A……Page 84
C……Page 85
D……Page 86
E……Page 87
F……Page 88
L……Page 89
M……Page 90
N……Page 91
P……Page 92
R……Page 93
T……Page 94
U……Page 95
Z……Page 96
7. Time of death…….Page 97
16. Drowning…….Page 98
25. Blunt trauma…….Page 99
34. Sudden natural death…….Page 100
43. Motor vehicle…….Page 101
45. Pedestrian injuries…….Page 102
1. Identification…….Page 103
2. Identification…….Page 104
3. Identification…….Page 105
4. Livor mortis…….Page 106
5. Livor mortis…….Page 107
6. Time of death…….Page 108
7. Time of death…….Page 109
8. Decomposition…….Page 110
9. Differential decomposition…….Page 111
10. Anthropophagia…….Page 112
11. Asphyxia…….Page 113
12. Asphyxia…….Page 114
13. Autoerotic asphyxiation…….Page 115
14. Asphyxia…….Page 116
15. Asphyxia…….Page 117