Postmortem Imaging Capabilities / A Staged Hanging: Postmortem Suspension of a Homicide Victim

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Postmortem Imaging Capabilities Objectives:

1. Understand what imaging is available to most forensic pathology practices and identify the types of autopsy cases that require postmortem imaging
2. Identify some of the features that can be used on postmortem imaging to establish identification of a decedent
3. Understand how both imaging and the autopsy have their own benefits and limitations, and how both can be used together to enhance medicolegal death investigation

A Staged Hanging: Postmortem Suspension of a Homicide Victim Objectives:

1. Recognize mechanisms of asphyxial deaths
2. Compare classic autopsy and scene findings in deaths due to hanging vs strangulation