Course Content
🫁 Theme I — Cough with Sputum and Fever
🫁 Theme II — Wheezy Chest & Shortness of Breath
Respiratory System (RS) Module — 3rd Year MBBS

📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

⚖️ Forensic Medicine

 

General Aspects of Asphyxia

  • Define asphyxia.
  • Define anoxia.
  • Enlist causes of anoxia.
  • Explain causes of asphyxia.
  • Classify mechanical asphyxia.
  • Describe pathophysiology of asphyxia.
  • Describe general signs of asphyxia.

Hanging

  • Define hanging.
  • Describe causes of death in hanging.
  • Explain mechanism of death in hanging.
  • Describe autopsy findings in hanging.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of hanging.

Strangulation

  • Define strangulation.
  • Describe causes of death in strangulation.
  • Explain mechanism of death in strangulation.
  • Describe autopsy findings in strangulation.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of strangulation.

Drowning

  • Define drowning.
  • Describe causes of death in drowning.
  • Explain mechanism of death in drowning.
  • Describe types of drowning.
  • Describe autopsy findings in drowning.
  • Differentiate between ante-mortem and post-mortem drowning.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of drowning.

Suffocation, Smothering, Choking, Gagging and Overlaying

  • Define suffocation and explain its medico-legal aspects.
  • Define smothering.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of smothering.
  • Define choking.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of choking.
  • Define gagging.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of gagging.
  • Define overlaying.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of overlaying.

Traumatic and Sexual Asphyxia

  • Define traumatic asphyxia.
  • Describe autopsy findings of traumatic asphyxia.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of traumatic asphyxia.
  • Define sexual asphyxia.
  • Explain medico-legal aspects of sexual asphyxia.

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