Blunt Force Trauma: occurs anytime a force impacts tissues over a relatively wide area Trauma: injury caused to the living tissues by an
outside force.
-projectile trauma (bullets, arrows, spears)
-blunt force tra
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Blunt Force Trauma: occurs anytime a force impacts tissues over a relatively wide area Trauma: injury caused to the living tissues by an
outside force.
-projectile trauma (bullets, arrows, spears)
-blunt force trauma (clubs, bats)
-Sharp force trauma (knives, swords)
5 contributions of trauma analysis to investigations
1. trauma at the time of death speaks to cause and manner of death
2. force that caused the trauma- ID the murder weapon
3. Number of wounds- single versus double, multiple
4. Determine the sequence of wounds
5. Determine the placement of wounds.
-- cause of death= process that stopped a person from breathing eg old age, starvation, disease
-- manner of death= the way a person died:
homicide, suicide, accident, natural, unknown
-fracture: when someone’s bone is broken completely
infraction (hinge): when someone’s bone is broken incompletely
-displacement: bone surfaces no longer meet
-hinge: incomplete separation
-greenstick: incomplete separation, sub adults
-simple: when a bone breaks in one place into two
-comminuted: the bones shatter into many pieces
-fracture line: is a secondary fracture that is associated with primary traumatic event.
--Radiating fracture lines: these lines are as a result of the strong impact. They spread out from the impact area to others.
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