Medical Jurisprudence Flashcards
Inherent Rights
to choose patients
to limit practice
to determine appropriate mngt
to avail of hospital services
Incidental rights
Right of way Exemption from execution of instruments and books To hold private/public offices To compensation To membership in med societies
Generics Act of 1988
RA 6676
3rd conviction of violation against RA 6676 (Generics Act)
P 5,000 - 10,000
30 days suspension of practice
Slight physical injuries incapacitate the victim from
1 - 9 days
Less serious physical injuries require medical attendance from
10 to less than 30 days
Penalties for illegal practice of medicine
1k-10k fine
1-5yrs imprisonment
Immediate transplantation after death of donor
Heart
Lung
Kidney
Liver
circumscribed extravasation of blood in subcutaeous tissue
petechiae
tattooing can be seen from contact up to
24 inches
smudging can be seen from contact up to
12 inches
flame of gsw is seen up to a distance of
3-6 inches
injury caused by sharp-edge instrument
incised wound
injury caused by sharp-pointed instrument
punctured wound
an injury caused by sharp-pointed and sharp edge instrument
stab wound
Compound used as truth serum
hyoscine hydrobromide
commonly used drugs for narcoanalysis
sodium amytal / pentothal
hypnotic/anesthetic
microchemical exam conclusive of the presence of semen
acid phosphatase test
biologic exam to test whether semen is of human origin or not
precipitin test
biological test of Farnum
Fingerprints are formed during the
4th month of pregnancy
Bones used to determine sex
Pelvis Skull Sternum Femur Humerus
Best microchemical test to determine if stain is blood or not
Teichmann’s test
Hemin crystal test
Average time required for death in drowning
2-5 minutes
Quantitative determination of chloride content of the blood in the RV and LV
Gettler’s test
difference of 25mmHg
Most prominent sign of death
Progressive fall of body temperature
Only method of judicial death recognized by our civil law
Death by electrocution
Length of survival without food and water
Less than 10 days
Length of survival without food (with water)
50-60 days
Microorganism that plays a dominant role in decomposition
Clostridium welchi
Rigor mortis in the tropics lasts for how many hours
1-2 days
Method of choice in infanticide
Throttling
Most common accidental smothering in children
overlaying
Basis to pronounce a person dead
Somatic death
Minimum gestation period compatible with viability of fetus
180 days
failure of a female to respond to sexual stimulus
frigidity
incestuous marriage is between collateral relatives by blood within
4th civil degree
up to 1st cousin
To be a Legitimate child, one must be born _______ days after the marriage or within _______ days after dissolution of marriage
180 days (6 months) or 300 days (10 months)
IQ of:
Idiot
Imbecile
Feeble-minded
0-20
21-40
41-70
IQ of: Mild Moderate Severe Profound
52 to 67
36 to 51
20-35
less than 20
most widely accepted method to measure alcohol and determine drunkenness
blood alcohol concentration
Kunkel’s test carried out on a blood sample is used to determine presence of
carbon monoxide
En Flagrante Delicto
In blazing offense
caught in the act
1st police surgeon and forensic pathologist
Antistius
amount of dangerous drugs for lifetime imprisonment
Opium 10g
Heroin 10g
Metamphetamine hydrochloride 50g
Marijuana 500g
abrasion commonly seen in hanging and strangulation
friction / pressure abrasion
