Death Investigations: Cause, Manner, and Mechanism - Robert Ly | Library

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Select all of the following that are duties of a forensic pathologist:

The coroner system
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We live in San Bernardino County. What type of official would oversee a death investigation?

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What about Los Angeles County? What type of official would oversee a death investigation there?

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List the 5 manners of death in any order:
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Read the scenario below and choose the mechanism of death.

A completely fictitious person named Bob was intoxicated and texting while driving on his way home from the bar. He failed to notice the pedestrian crossing the street, and struck him going 40 mphin a residential area. The pedestrian unfortunately did not survive the crash due to excessive internal bleeding. Due to Bob's negligence, he is being charged with "vehicular homicide."

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Both the coroner and medical examiner are qualified to perform autopsies.

The ultimate cause of death from hanging is typically the cessation of blood flow to or from the brain. Victims of hangings may show signs of petechiae on the eyelids, along with a swollen and a blue/purplish appearance of the face. Petechiae are very small and are caused by blood having escaped into the tissues as a result of capillaries bursting (see Figure 4–6). Although petechiae are witnessed in hanging cases, they are more common in strangulation deaths. Typically the hyoid bone (the bone on which the tongue rests) and thyroid cartilage (located below the hyoid) are not fractured in cases of hanging. A break of the thyroid cartilage is common, however, in manual strangulation.

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Which stage of decomposition is shown?

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