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A Novel Approach for the Administration of Medications and Fluids in Emergency Scenarios and Settings
Published on: November 9, 2016
Forensic emergency medicine: old wine in new barrels
1Department of Forensic Medicine, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Abstract:
Emergency and forensic physicians may find themselves sometimes on the same medical battleground but with different primary aims and hence often ignore or do not recognize each other's needs. The emergency physician interacts with law enforcement agencies with greater frequency than any other hospital physician and hence needs expertise with legal issues. Awareness of the forensic relevance of certain medical observations by emergency physicians, knowledge of emergency medicine methodology and techniques and of resuscitation-related injuries by forensic physicians may lead to a higher standard in both forensic and emergency medicine, a better serving of the criminal justice system, and most importantly safeguarding the rights of victims of criminal assault. It is this achievable mutual symbiosis that we would like to refer to as the concept of 'forensic emergency medicine'.
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