Forensic medicine

Question 1

Tests for blood stains

Answer 1

Presumptive tests:
1. Color tests-
Benzidine test- Blue +
Phenophthalein test/ Kastle myer test- Pink +
2. Luminescent test-
Luminol spray
UV light

Confirmatory tests:
1. Teichman’s test- brown rhombic
2. Takayama test: pink feathery
3. Absorption spectrometry

Question 2

Tests for Seminal stains

Answer 2

Florence test- brown rhombic crystals of choline
Barberio test: Yellow needle crystals of spermine

Question 3

Acute cocaine poisoning is seen in _____ syndrome?
What are the features of acute cocaine poisoning?

Answer 3

Body packer syndrome

Sympathomimetic poison- increased HR, BP, sweating, dilated pupils, tingling of hands and feet
Feeling of well being

Question 4

C/c cocaine poisoning features

Answer 4

Cocaine bugs/ Magnan syndrome/ formication
Septal perforation
Peripheral gangrene (d/t vasoconstriction)
Tactile hallucination
Black staining of tongue/ teeth

Question 5

Judicial strangulation is called

Answer 5

Garotting

Question 6

Stain used to visualize Myocardial infarct during autopsy

Answer 6

Triphenyl Tetrazolium chloride (TTC)
It stains the viable myocardium

Question 7

Treatment of choice for iron poisoning

Answer 7

Desferoxamine