RT Book, Section
A1 Smock, Mariah Eliza
A1 Smock, William S.
A2 Amar, Angela F.
A2 Sekula, L. Kathleen
SR Print(0)
ID 1189400379
T1 Assessment of Wounds and Injury
T2 A Practical Guide to Forensic Nursing: Incorporating Forensic Principles Into Nursing Practice
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB Sigma Theta Tau International
PP New York, NY
SN 9781940446349
LK apn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1189400379
RD 2023/11/30
AB KEY  POINTS  IN  THIS  CHAPTERThe  nurse  with  forensic  training  is  an  asset  to  the  patient,  the  hospital,  and  the  criminal  justice  system.The  determination  of  entrance  versus  exit  wounds  is  made  by  examination  of  the  wound’s  physical  characteristics,  not  the  wound  size.Incised  wounds  have  sharp  wound  margins  and  result  from  a  sharp-edged  implement  (knife,  glass,  razor  blade,  or  scalpel)  being  drawn  across  the  skin.Superficial  and/or  parallel  incisions  should  be  assumed  to  be  self-inflicted.A  laceration  has  irregular  wound  margins  and  results  from  blunt-force  trauma.The  age  of  a  contusion  cannot  be  accurately  determined  from  its  color  and  appearance.A  victim  of  strangulation  can  be  rendered  unconscious  in  less  than  7  seconds  without  evidence  of  external  trauma.  The  deprivation  of  oxygenated  blood  to  the  brain  results  in  an  anoxic  brain  injury.Physical  injury,  such  as  petechial  hemorrhage,  is  not  required  to  prove  a  patient  was  strangled.  More  than  half  of  fatal  strangulations  have  no  visible  external  evidence  of  trauma.