A roadmap to the safe practice of forensic medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced forensic practitioners to consider how we perform our normal duties, especially when those duties involve humans. The potential for contracting the virus from working in close contact with living sufferers is high, and we have yet to fully determine the risk of infec...

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Autores principales: Parekh, Utsav, Chariot, Patrick, Dang, Catherine, Stray-Pedersen, Arne, Druid, Henrik, Sajantila, Antti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7560269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102036
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author Parekh, Utsav
Chariot, Patrick
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Druid, Henrik
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has forced forensic practitioners to consider how we perform our normal duties, especially when those duties involve humans. The potential for contracting the virus from working in close contact with living sufferers is high, and we have yet to fully determine the risk of infection from the deceased. In an attempt to support the community, the Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine has drawn together three articles which underline the importance of continued forensic medical practice during the pandemic and highlight some factors to consider in a Roadmap towards safe practice. Our Roadmap has intentionally taken an international perspective and supports other work we have published in the Journal on our collective response to the COVID-19 crisis.
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spelling pubmed-75602692020-10-16 A roadmap to the safe practice of forensic medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic Parekh, Utsav Chariot, Patrick Dang, Catherine Stray-Pedersen, Arne Druid, Henrik Sajantila, Antti J Forensic Leg Med Review The COVID-19 pandemic has forced forensic practitioners to consider how we perform our normal duties, especially when those duties involve humans. The potential for contracting the virus from working in close contact with living sufferers is high, and we have yet to fully determine the risk of infection from the deceased. In an attempt to support the community, the Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine has drawn together three articles which underline the importance of continued forensic medical practice during the pandemic and highlight some factors to consider in a Roadmap towards safe practice. Our Roadmap has intentionally taken an international perspective and supports other work we have published in the Journal on our collective response to the COVID-19 crisis. Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2020-11 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7560269/ /pubmed/33208233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102036 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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