Sudebno-meditsinskaia ekspertiza
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Historical Article
[Police surgeons and organization of forensic-medical examination in Sankt-Petersburg prior to the establishment of the city medical department].
The author presents documents illustrating one of the stages in the organization of forensic-medical service that provided the basis for the establishment of the city medical administration in 1873.
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Case Reports
[Clinical and forensic-medical aspects of the injury in the medial facial region complicated by orbital phlegmona].
The present study has demonstrated that a trauma inflicted to the medial facial region complicated by orbital phlegmona and similar injuries are characterized by specific morphological features differing in terms of localization and potential consequences that provide a basis for their categorization from the standpoint of severity of harm to human health.
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This paper was designed to analyse the main experimental models of blunt cardiac trauma proposed during a period of more than 100 years beginning from the study of the Italian scientist Felice Meola dated to the 1870s till the present time. The analysis demonstrated that even a mild injury to the anterior chest wall in the projection of the heart may cause serious changes in hemodynamics and ECG characteristics. It was shown that various methods employed to simulate blunt cardiac trauma place potential constraints related to the design of experiments.
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Case Reports
[Assessment of injuries to the neck and dentomandibular system complicated by the infectious process].
The objective of the present work was to consider problems pertaining to forensic medical examination of injuries to the neck and dentition system complicated by pyoinflammatory processes. Two clinical observations are reported to illustrate significant difficulties encountered by forensic medical experts during assessment of the severity of harm inflicted to human health in the cases requiring differential characteristic of injuries, evaluation of opportuneness and completeness of the provided medical aid, and the role of these factors in the development of fatal pyoseptic complications. Special emphasis is laid on the analysis of possibilities to attain these goals based on the "Medical criteria for the assessment of severity of harm inflicted to human health" (2008).
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Biography Historical Article
[Iosif Vasil'evich Bertenson, an organizer of forensic medical examination in the Sankt-Peterburg region].
The paper describes the life and professional work of I. V. Bertenson, MD, the first medical inspector of the Sankt-Peterburg guberniya (region), distinguished forensic medical examiner, surgeon, hygienist, historian of medicine and organizer of health services in this country. ⋯ V. Bertenson are exemplified by his work as the editor of the journal "Arkhiv sudebnoy meditsiny and obshchestvennoy gigieny (Archive of Forensic Medicine and Public Hygiene)", and the chairman of the 5th Pirogov Congress. The materials for the paper were borrowed from the Sankt-Peterburg Central State Archive and pre-revolutionary press publications.