Institute of Forensic Medicine
Masaryk University
budova-USL
Tomáš Vojtíšek, e-mail: tomas.vojtisek@fnusa.cz
Acknowledgement: Dr. Jan Krajsa, Ph.D., Jan Frišhons

Forensic Medicine
•Autopsies
•Laboratory examinations
–Histology
–Toxicology
–Serology
–Anthropology
–Genetics
•Teaching
•Experts activity
•Science activity
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…on the crime scene
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…in the nature
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…on the ladder
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1930


Univ. Prof. Dr. František Berka
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1994 –
Prof. MUDr. Miroslav Hirt, CSc.
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96 500
1930 - 2010


The Autopsies in the Czech rep.
•The main Statute: Health of Nation (1966)
•„…by dead person is usually made an autopsy…“
•Regulation of the Ministry of Health (1988)
•2011?
•Exception: Criminal Procedure (autopsy made by two experts)

Autopsy
•Anatomical autopsy (donation)
•Pathological autopsy
(natural death in hospitals)
•Forensic autopsy  - for medical doctors (health care)
(death out of hospital or violent death)
•Forensic autopsy - for Police (criminal procedure)

over 100 000 deaths/year
Autopsy
30%

Autopsy
•Absolute obligatory
•Relative obligatory
•Non-obligatory
•On the request of the relatives

Autopsies obligatory in the Department of Pathology
•Women die by parturition or abortion
•Children – 18 age (and foetuses after abortion from genetic reasons)
•Pacients die after surgical operation
•Bodies after transplantation of organs (donors)
•Deaths by medical experiments
•Deaths by explantations of organs or tissues for transplantation

Autopsies obligatory in the Department of the Forensic Med.
•Sudden death from unknown causes
•All deaths after trauma (violent deaths), incl. suicides
•Suspicious medical malpractice
•Drug deaths
•Prisoners
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New czech civil code?



The Museum
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Sections of the museum
•Suffocation
•Blunt injury
•Firearm injury
•Identification
•Medical malpractice
•Injuries due the electricity
•Poisons
•Sharp injuries
•Forensic obstetrics and gynecology
•Sudden and unexpected death
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