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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica
versión On-line ISSN 2215-5287versión impresa ISSN 1409-0015
Resumen
FLORES SANDI, Grettchen. Investigación médico legal en la escena de la muerte. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 1998, vol.15, n.1-2, pp.35-43. ISSN 2215-5287.
The death scene investigation is an important part of the autopsy. In Costa Rica this indications are regulated by the law. But not always a forensic pathologist is available at the death scene. There are 5893 autopsy protocoles done in the Forensic Pathology Section of the Medico-Legal Department of the OIJ, between 1991-1993, to justify the importance of a forensic pathologist at the death scene, and the recomendations about it.
Palabras clave : death scene; medical and legal investigation; forensic pathologist; cause and manner of death.