Second Edition
by Jonathan S. Olshaker
Forensic Emergency Medicine provides the information emergency departments need about the medicolegal aspects of treating victims of violence, motor vehicle accidents, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and intimate partner abuse. Features:
- Provides the information emergency departments need about the medicolegal aspects of treating patients who have been assaulted or injured
- Coverage includes victims of violence, motor vehicle accidents, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and intimate partner abuse
- Detailed guidelines on interviewing and examining the victim, what kinds of evidence to look for, injury patterns, use of rape kits, and collecting, preserving, and documenting evidence for legal proceedings
- Includes a chapter by an attorney on expert testimony
- Includes a chapter on forensic photography in the emergency department
- A full-colour photo insert illustrates injury patterns and key evidence
- Second Edition provides increased coverage of motor vehicle accidents, DNA evidence, and new drugs of abuse
Contents
- Perpetrators
- The Victims of Violence
- Interviewing Techniques
- Forensic Emergency Medicine: Penetrating Trauma
- Forensic Aspects of Motor Vehicle Trauma
- Forensic Examination of Adult Victims and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
- Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault of Adolescents
- Child Sexual Assault: The Acute Assessment
- Child Abuse/Assault
- Elder Abuse
- Treating Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse: Foresic Indentification and Docementation
- New Drugs of Abuse
- Serology and DNA Evidence
- Law Enforcement
- Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System
- Testifying
- Forensic Photography in the Emergency Department
Index
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