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    Katelynn Owens - 1.2.1 Autopsy Report Guide

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    The document provides decedent information for an autopsy of an individual named John Doe including height, weight, eye color, hair color, date of birth, and date of death. It notes any clothing or personal effects and details of the external and internal examination of the body including evidence of injury, identification features, and postmortem changes. Laboratory test results for toxicology, other labs, and histology are also included. The case summary provides the medical examiner's narrative opinion and the cause, mechanism, and manner of death are stated.

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    The document provides decedent information for an autopsy of an individual named John Doe including height, weight, eye color, hair color, date of birth, and date of death. It notes any clothing or personal effects and details of the external and internal examination of the body including evidence of injury, identification features, and postmortem changes. Laboratory test results for toxicology, other labs, and histology are also included. The case summary provides the medical examiner's narrative opinion and the cause, mechanism, and manner of death are stated.

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    The document provides decedent information for an autopsy of an individual named John Doe including height, weight, eye color, hair color, date of birth, and date of death. It notes any clothing or personal effects and details of the external and internal examination of the body including evidence of injury, identification features, and postmortem changes. Laboratory test results for toxicology, other labs, and histology are also included. The case summary provides the medical examiner's narrative opinion and the cause, mechanism, and manner of death are stated.

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    Katelynn Owens - 1.2.1 Autopsy Report Guide

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    The document provides decedent information for an autopsy of an individual named John Doe including height, weight, eye color, hair color, date of birth, and date of death. It notes any clothing or personal effects and details of the external and internal examination of the body including evidence of injury, identification features, and postmortem changes. Laboratory test results for toxicology, other labs, and histology are also included. The case summary provides the medical examiner's narrative opinion and the cause, mechanism, and manner of death are stated.

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    Decedent Information

    Historical Summary Height (in) Examination Info


    Type List the type of autopsy being
    Name Jon Doe
    John Lewis ------in Type
    completed. Autopsies are
    Age ## Weight (lbs) classified as “forensic” if they
    Date seek to find the cause and
    Sex ----- ------lbs manner of death or to ID the
    Date of Birth Place decedent. “Clinical” or
    Eye Color
    Month 00, 0000 “pathological” autopsies are
    ------ completed to diagnose a
    disease or for research.
    Date of Death Hair Color
    Month 00, 0000 ------

    Clothing/Personal Effects
    add item List any items that are found on the body
    1 before the autopsy procedure begins.
    2 This may include clothing, jewelry,
    3 wallets, or other personal items.

    Medical Intervention Features of Identification


    Yes No Describe how an ID was made and confirmed.
    Identification of a decedent may be made through
    Details
    N/A ID by a family member, but more often happens via
    photographs, scars, marks, tattoos, identification
    carried on the person such as a driver’s license,
    and even the last known clothing. Further ID may
    include fingerprints, dental records, surgical
    records, medical device records, and DNA.
    Evidence of Injury
    > Describe any wounds, cuts,
    bone breaks, or other invasive
    injury, including locations and
    Postmortem Changes
    measurements. Detail evidence that may be linked to determination
    of time of death (rigor mortis, ocular clarity, etc.).
    Anterior Posterior

    Document the location of


    injuries noted on the report.
    NOTE: Photographs are
    also taken.

    Front Analysis Top Analysis Side Analysis


    > Illustrate damage > Illustrate > Illustrate damage
    to the skull (if any). damage to the to the skull (if any).
    skull (if any).

    External Examination
    > Document the overall condition of the outside of the body – as determined visually and by
    palpation. Include information on scars, marks, and tattoos. NOTE: This section will not typically
    include injury and trauma – as this is recorded in a separate section.

    Internal Examination
    > Document abnormalities or injury to internal organs as well the presence of normal structures.
    This surgical procedure includes an examination of the organs in the body and the removal of
    these organs for examination and weighing. Tissue samples of each organ are typically collected
    and sent away for histological testing.
    Toxicology Results Lab Results Histology Results
    Describe the results of > Describe additional blood > Describe the analysis of
    routine toxicology testing or urine testing results tissue samples that were
    typically completed for all (outside of the toxicology taken from the main organs
    autopsies - a drug screen of screens). of the body and may
    highlight traumatic injury,
    evidence of cancer, damage
    due to a natural disease
    process, or events such as a
    heart attack.

    Case Summary
    (Opinion of the Medical Examiner): Provide a narrative about the overall findings and details of
    the case.

    Cause of Death
    List a cause, mechanism, and manner of death

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