Sudebno-meditsinskaia ekspertiza
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Biography Historical Article
[Grigorii Iosifovich Zaslavskii (on 70th anniversary of the birthday)].
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Described in the paper are forensic-medical cases related with examinations of wounds inflicted by rubber case-shot--a relatively rare ammunition. The morphology of the above wounds and specific features of deposition of "shot metals" in the damaged region were studied. The possibilities of fixing a shot distance and ammunition type were defined.
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Historical Article
[Management and organisation of research in forensic medicine].
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The forensic medical measures undertaken by Russia's Defense Ministry (RDM) in its campaign against trafficking of narcotics and drastic medicines in Russia's territory are addressed in the paper. The dynamic mortality rate due to poisoning by narcotic and psychotropic agents (among Russian citizens) is shown for 1996-2001; the following issues are also discussed: specificity of drug-trafficking and drug-addiction in the contemporary Russian society and, primarily, in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the conditions, on which the RDM expert forensic-and-medical institutions are involved in state measures against trafficking of narcotics and drastic medicines in Russia's territory.
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The contents of acetaldehyde (AA) in biological fluids obtained from the dead with the confirmed lethality causes, i.e. ischemic heart disease (IHD), alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACMP) and mechanical traumas (MT), were examined on an actual forensic-medical material (AFMM). 14 death cases of males, aged 18 to 45, were studied. The method of gas-liquid chromatography (GLC), or rather its variation of vaporphase analysis, was used to state the presence and to assess the concentration of acetaldehyde. ⋯ A higher AA content was typical of the ACMP group in all examined subjects both with and without alcoholic intoxication. The final study results are suggestive of that the AA determination in blood, urine and liquor by GLC could be used, within the forensic medical practice, in assessing a severity degree of alcoholic intoxication while establishing the lethal outcome cause due to chronic pathologies and MT.