Perils of human remains examination in COVID-19 times

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has surged globally bringing the whole world virtually to a standstill. Due to its highly contagious nature, various guidelines, protocols and preventive strategies have been devised for the safety of healthcare workers during management of the living as well as the...

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Autores principales: Parekh, Utsav, Kanchan, Tanuj, Krishan, Kewal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33338801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102101
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description The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has surged globally bringing the whole world virtually to a standstill. Due to its highly contagious nature, various guidelines, protocols and preventive strategies have been devised for the safety of healthcare workers during management of the living as well as the dead. However, guidelines and precautions to be followed during the examination of the human skeletal remains are largely lacking. The present communication intends to address the issue of safe handling of human remains during medicolegal investigations in the COVID-19 pandemic times.
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spelling pubmed-78329442021-01-26 Perils of human remains examination in COVID-19 times Parekh, Utsav Kanchan, Tanuj Krishan, Kewal J Forensic Leg Med Letter to the Editor The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has surged globally bringing the whole world virtually to a standstill. Due to its highly contagious nature, various guidelines, protocols and preventive strategies have been devised for the safety of healthcare workers during management of the living as well as the dead. However, guidelines and precautions to be followed during the examination of the human skeletal remains are largely lacking. The present communication intends to address the issue of safe handling of human remains during medicolegal investigations in the COVID-19 pandemic times. Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2021-01 2020-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7832944/ /pubmed/33338801 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102101 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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