scholarly journals Forensic-medical opinions to the assessment of irreparable consequences of facial trauma

2016 ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Anatolii Zavalniuk ◽  
Ihor Yukhymets ◽  
Oleksandr Kravets

The article deals with the searching of the ways to improve the forensic-medical examination of injuries to the face which cause irreparable consequences. The article reviews the current procedural and regulatory requirements for performing of such examinations, criteria of irreparable facial disfigurement, caused by trauma. It is proposed to grant the right to forensic-medical examiner (including a commision of experts) finally to estimate severity degree of injuries in cases of clear indubitable posttraumatic facial disfigurement. This is due to the fact that forensic-medical examiner has special medical knowledge in face anatomy and physiology, knows functions of its individual parts and also possessed of common to all mankind conception about disfigurement of organs and tissues.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Marthinson A. Tombeng ◽  
Eko Prasetyo ◽  
Nico A. Lumintang ◽  
Maximillian Ch. Oley

Abstrak: Cedera tembus wajah dapat berbahaya karena adanya struktur-struktur penting pada wajah yang membutuhkan penanganan dengan cepat dan tepat. Benda asing organik dapat menyebabkan risiko tinggi infeksi luka. Kami memresentasikan suatu kasus yang jarang ditemukan yaitu seorang laki-laki berusia 19 tahun dengan luka tembus wajah oleh patahan cabang pohon akibat kecelakaan sepeda motor. Panjang cabang pohon 25 cm dengan diameter sekitar 4 cm, menembus melalui sisi depan kanan wajah, tepat di samping hidung, dan menjorok keluar melalui sudut kanan mandibula. Evaluasi dan penatalaksanaan cedera tembus wajah dilakukan mengikuti protokol ATLS. Tujuan penatalaksanaan cedera tembus wajah ialah mengeluarkan benda asing dengan trauma minimal pada struktur berdekatan dan mempertahankan fungsi dan penampilan yang normal. Pasien ini menjalani operasi darurat untuk pengangkatan benda asing dan eksplorasi luka dengan anestesi umum. Evaluasi pasca operasi tidak mendapatkan adanya perdarahan maupun tanda-tanda infeksi. Defisit neurologik pada wajah kanan diterapi secara konservatif dengan terapi fisik dan pulih sepenuhnya satu tahun pasca kecelakaan.Kata kunci: luka tembus, trauma wajah, cabang pohonAbstract: Penetrating facial injury can be dangerous because of the presence of important structures in the face which requires immediate and proper management. Organic foreign bodies may cause a high risk of wound infection. We present a case of a 19-year-old male with an unusual penetrating facial injury by a broken tree branch due to a motorcycle accident. The length of the tree branch was 25 cm with a diameter of approximately 4 cm, penetrating through the right anterior side of his face, just lateral to the nose, and protruding through the right angle of the mandible. The evaluation and management of the penetrating facial injury were performed in accordance with the ATLS protocol. The aim of the penetrating facial injuries management is to remove foreign body with minimal trauma to adjacent structures and to maintain the normal function and appearance. The patient underwent emergency surgery for removal of the foreign body and wound exploration under general anesthesia. In postoperative evaluation, there was not any bleeding or signs of infection. The neurological deficit in the right face was managed conservatively with physical therapy and was fully recovered in 1 year after the accident.Keywords: penetrating wound, facial trauma, tree branch


Author(s):  
Mariіa Konstantinovna Kulava

Within the presented article, taking into account already existing achievements of scientists, the concept, the main features of the principles of state administration of the executive system of Ukraine are defined. The principles of activity of executive bodies bodies according to the current legislation of Ukraine are determined. A brief description of the principles is presented, namely: the rule of law, legality, compulsory, independence, justice, impartiality and objectivity, discretion, transparency and openness of executive proceedings and its fixation by technical means, the reasonableness of the time limits for enforcement proceedings, the proportionality of enforcement measures and the amount of claims for decisions, the right to appeal decisions, actions or omissions of state executives, private performers. It is established that in general the principles of executive proceedings in the investigated normative acts are duplicated, in addition to the principles of independence and the right to appeal decisions, actions or inaction of state executives, private performers. The actual vision of the principles of public administration of the executive system of Ukraine is determined. The opinion on the need to supplement the list of principles with the following: the principle of equal competition between state and private performers through the balance between them; the principle of responsibility of the executive system bodies, their officials and private executors for damage caused as a result of violations of regulatory requirements; the principle of introducing effective incentives for voluntary implementation of decisions; the principle of professionalism and competence. Also, within the submitted article, it is stated that the use of the terms “principles” and “principles” in the Laws of Ukraine “On Bodies and Officials Performing Enforcement of Court Decisions and Decisions of Other Bodies”, “On Enforcement Proceedings”, which are adopted simultaneously and regulated, are unjustified, identical social relations.


2020 ◽  
pp. 194338752094933
Author(s):  
Gabriela Mayrink ◽  
Stella Araújo ◽  
Laisa Kindely ◽  
Renato Marano ◽  
Aguimar Bourguinon de Mattos Filho ◽  
...  

Study Design: Violence against women is a challenge in public health. It involves women of all ages, socioeconomic statuses, cultures, and religions. Objective: The objective of this study was to perform an epidemiological survey of facial trauma among women who experienced physical aggression by an intimate partner. Methods: Electronic medical records from a public tertiary referral hospital for trauma in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo were analyzed between 2013 and 2018. Results: Patients were most commonly between 20 and 29 years of age (33.9%), and 50% of the patients were of mixed race. When separated by days of the week, facial trauma was most commonly inflicted on Sundays (24.2%) and on Saturdays (22.6%). Of the 62 women included in the study, 47 had facial fractures, and 7 had more than 1 concomitant fracture. Forty of the total fractures (72.7%) were on the middle and upper thirds of the face, while 15 fractures (27.3%) were on the lower third of the face. The most commonly observed signs and symptoms of these injuries were edema (56.5%), periorbital ecchymosis (35.5%), deviated nasal dorsum (22.6%), and hematoma (16.1%). Conclusions: Facial trauma may be considered an important marker of attempted femicide. Health care professionals must be aware of and attentive to this correlation, since many cases of attempted femicide go unnoticed or are attributed to another etiology.


2021 ◽  
pp. 263246362097804
Author(s):  
Vanita Arora ◽  
Pawan Suri

Anatomy and physiology are the basis of human body functioning and as we have progressed in management of various diseases, we have understood that physiological intervention is always better than an anatomical one. For more than 50 years, a standard approach to permanent cardiac pacing has been an anatomical placement of transvenous pacing lead at the right ventricular apex with a proven benefit of restoring the rhythm. However, the resultant ventricular dyssynchrony on the long-term follow-up in patients requiring more than 40% ventricular pacing led to untoward side effects in the form of heart failure and arrhythmias. To counter such adverse side effects, a need for physiological cardiac pacing wherein the electrical impulse be transmitted directly through the normal conduction system was sought. His bundle pacing (HBP) with an intriguing alternative of left bundle branch pacing (LBBP) is aimed at restoring such physiological activation of ventricles. HBP is safe, efficacious, and feasible; however, localization and placement of a pacing lead at the His bundle is challenging with existing transvenous systems due to its small anatomic size, surrounding fibrous tissue, long-learning curve, and the concern remains about lead dislodgement and progressive electrical block distal to the HBP lead. In this article, we aim to take the reader through the challenging journey of HBP with focus upon the hardware and technique, selective versus nonselective HBP, indications and potential disadvantages, and finally the future prospects.


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (06) ◽  
pp. 581-590
Author(s):  
Patrick Cleveland ◽  
Jesse Smith

AbstractTraumatic injuries to the orbitofrontal region place some of the most important structures of the face at risk: the eyes, frontal skull, and brain. A thorough knowledge of complications from resultant trauma, and from attempted surgical corrections, is necessary to offer patients the best outcomes, ensuring proper healing with excellent long-term results.


Author(s):  
Richard Wennberg ◽  
Sukriti Nag ◽  
Mary-Pat McAndrews ◽  
Andres M. Lozano ◽  
Richard Farb ◽  
...  

A 24-year-old woman was referred because of incompletely-controlled complex partial seizures. Her seizures had started at age 21, after a mild head injury with brief loss of consciousness incurred in a biking accident, and were characterized by a sensation of bright flashing lights in the right visual field, followed by numbness and tingling in the right foot, spreading up the leg and to the arm, ultimately involving the entire right side, including the face. Occasionally they spread further to involve right facial twitching with jerking of the right arm and leg, loss of awareness and, at the onset of her epilepsy, rare secondarily generalized convulsions. Seizure frequency averaged three to four per month. She was initially treated with phenytoin and clobazam and subsequently changed to carbamazepine 800 milligrams per day. She also complained that her right side was no longer as strong as her left and that it was also numb, especially the leg, but felt that this weakness had stabilized or improved slightly over the past two years.


1914 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-594
Author(s):  
Benjamin B. Warfield

In a recent number of The Harvard Theological Review, Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh of the Yale Divinity School outlines in a very interesting manner the religious system to which he gives his adherence. For “substance of doctrine” (to use a form of speech formerly quite familiar at New Haven) this religious system does not differ markedly from what is usually taught in the circles of the so-called “Liberal Theology.” Professor Macintosh has, however, his own way of construing and phrasing the common “Liberal” teaching; and his own way of construing and phrasing it presents a number of features which invite comment. It is tempting to turn aside to enumerate some of these, and perhaps to offer some remarks upon them. As we must make a selection, however, it seems best to confine ourselves to what appears on the face of it to be the most remarkable thing in Professor Macintosh's representations. This is his disposition to retain for his religious system the historical name of Christianity, although it utterly repudiates the cross of Christ, and in fact feels itself (in case of need) quite able to get along without even the person of Christ. A “new Christianity,” he is willing, to be sure, to allow that it is—a “new Christianity for which the world is waiting”; and as such he is perhaps something more than willing to separate it from what he varyingly speaks of as “the older Christianity,” “actual Christianity,” “historic Christianity,” “actual, historical Christianity.” He strenuously claims for it, nevertheless, the right to call itself by the name of “Christianity.”


Author(s):  
Sophy Baird

Children are afforded a number of protections when they encounter the criminal justice system. The need for special protection stems from the vulnerable position children occupy in society. When children form part of the criminal justice system, either by being an offender, victim, or witness, they may be subjected to harm. To mitigate against the potential harm that may be caused, our law provides that criminal proceedings involving children should not be open to the public, subject to the discretion of the court. This protection naturally seems at odds with the principle of open justice. However, the courts have reconciled the limitation with the legal purpose it serves. For all the protection and the lengths that the law goes to protect the identity of children in this regard, it appears there is an unofficial timer dictating when this protection should end. The media have been at the forefront of this conundrum to the extent that they believe that once a child (offender, victim, or witness) turns 18 years old, they are free to reveal the child's identity. This belief, grounded in the right to freedom of expression and the principle of open justice, is at odds with the principle of child's best interests, right to dignity and the right to privacy. It also stares incredulously in the face of the aims of the Child Justice Act and the principles of restorative justice. Measured against the detrimental psychological effects experienced by child victims, witnesses, and offenders, this article aims to critically analyse the legal and practical implications of revealing the identity of child victims, witnesses, and offenders after they turn 18 years old.


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