Institute of Forensic Medicine

                                              Autopsy

•           Anatomical autopsy

•           Pathological autopsy

•           Forensic autopsy     - for medical doctors                   - for Police

                             Autopsies obligated in the Czech republic

•            Children

•            Women die by parturition or abortion

•            Implanted objects (pacemaker etc.)

•            Bodies after transplantation (donors)

•            Sudden death from unknown causes

•            All deaths after trauma (violent deaths)

•            Prisoners

•            Suspicious medical malpractice

                                   Special examples of autopsies

•            Sudden and unexpected death (from natural causes)

•            Unnatural death = violent death



–       Exhumation

–       Putrefied bodies

–       Firearms wounds

–       Identification

–       Etc…



                          Laboratories for forensic medicine examinations

•           Histology

•           Serology

•           Toxicology

•           Genetics

•           Anthropology

•           Photography