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Browsing Forensic Medicine by Issue Date
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2006-01)Lightning is a serious danger, and constitutes one of our country’s deadliest weather phenomena. A review of the southern African medical literature shows a paucity of published data on lightning fatalities, with most ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-05-18)Firearm fatalities in South Africa are responsible for a very large number of fatalities. For purposes of judicial administration, determination of manner of death, in particular, differentiating between homicidal, accidental ...
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(Elsevier, 2009)A study was undertaken to research the occurrence of homicide–suicide events in the Pretoria region from January 1997 until October 2001. It is important to attempt understanding this tragic phenomenon from psychiatric ...
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(Elsevier, 2009)There is a paucity of data with regards to non-lightning, electrical-related injuries in sub-Saharan Africa. A review of the South African medical literature also shows a dearth of electrocution-related information. This ...
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(Libertas Academica, 2010)Sudden and unexpected death in the young is a common and worldwide problem. Sudden, unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), clinically unexpected death in an infant between one week and one year of age, affects around 1 in ...
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(Springer, 2010)Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been reported to be the leading cause of death in infants under 1 year of age in many countries. Unfortunately, a paucity of published research data exists in South Africa, with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)Unidentified bodies in the forensic setting constitute a global problem. Though this should be of great concern to many governments, very little data on the extent of this phenomenon is available in international literature ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)In 2009, the South African population was estimated at 49.32 million. The Department of Home Affairs had 612 462 registered deaths in 2006, with approximately 122 492 of these being due to other than natural causes. It is ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)No abstract available.
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(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012-03)A 48 year-old-female was struck dead by lightning on the 24th October 2010 in Pretoria South Africa. The cause of death was due to direct lightning strike. Examination showed secondary missile injury on her legs. This ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-07)South Africa has a rich history of lightning research; however, research on the clinical and pathological effects and features of lightning-related injury (keraunomedicine or lightning medicine) remains neglected locally. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-14)HIV has become a focal point for South Africa and many other parts of the world. This is owing to the dire implications the disease holds for the human race. Accurate research needs to be done in order to determine the ...
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(Lippencott, Williams & Wilkens, 2012-09)Five mechanisms have been described in the literature regarding lightning injury mechanisms. A sixth mechanism is proposed in this article, namely, lightning barotrauma. A simple laboratory experiment was conducted using ...
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(Springer, 2013)INTRODUCTION : South Africa manifests a socio-economic dichotomy that shows features of both a developed and developing country. As a result of this, areas exist where the lack of resources and expertise prevents the ...
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(SAGE, 2013)This study aimed to establish the incidence of homicide, associated pathology of trauma and victim profiles in cases admitted to or managed as homicidal deaths at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory (PMLL) over the period ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-04-18)The universally controversial issue of deaths in custody is especially pertinent to South Africa. This study was prompted due to the increasingly diminishing ability for a concerted effort at tackling this issue by all ...
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(The Birds of Prey Programme of South Africa’s Endangered Wildlife Trust, 2014)An adult giraffe was struck dead by lightning on a game farm outside Phalaborwa, South Africa in March 2014. Interestingly, delayed post-mortem predation occurred on the carcass, which according to the farm owners was an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)LocardÕs Exchange Principle necessitates that the bodies of victims of crime be treated as secondary crime scenes. Imaging technologies should be implemented with a view towards discovering trace evidence that may aid ...
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(EDP Sciences, 2014-03)The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of Human Immunodefi ciency Virus (HIV) amongst decedents admitted to the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory (MLL). The study was designed as a cross sectional study. ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-05)Reye’s syndrome is characterised by acute non-inflammatory encephalopathy and fatty degeneration of the liver. The exact aetiology of the syndrome is unknown, but there is an association with viral infections and the use ...
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