Is the role of forensic medicine in the covid-19 pandemic underestimated?
| Autor: | Milenko Bogdanović, Tatjana Atanasijevic, Bojana Radnić, Tijana Durmic, Vesna Popović, Zoran Mihailovic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Infectious Disease Transmission Patient-to-Professional Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) COVID-19 pandemic Autopsy 01 natural sciences Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Professional Role Cause of Death Pandemic medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Intensive care medicine Pandemics Cause of death Forensics Infection Control Mortality statistics business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Multidisciplinary analysis Data Collection 010401 analytical chemistry COVID-19 General Medicine Forensic Medicine 0104 chemical sciences Virus Latency Forensic science Commentary business |
| Zdroj: | Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology |
| ISSN: | 1556-2891 |
| Popis: | We believe that forensic medicine should play a significant role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Forensic pathologists should ask and answer various questions through autopsy cases during the COVID-19 period, thus providing a significant contribution to science. Some of the potential roles of forensic medicine in this issue include: determining the exact cause of death among the deceased who were SARS-CoV-2 positive, contribution to the accuracy of mortality statistics, understanding pathological mechanisms of COVID-19, tracking the presence of the virus over time, survival of the virus after death as well as dealing with medicolegal issues. A detailed multidisciplinary analysis of autopsy samples would undoubtedly help understand this new illness and its clinical management. Therefore, autopsies during the COVID-19 pandemic should not be an exception, but certainly a rule. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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