This pocketbook provides emergency service personnel and emergency physicians with practical forensic knowledge for the initial care of emergency patients based on numerous case examples. Topics include necropsy, crime scene behavior, blunt and sharp force, strangulation, gunshot wounds, homicide, and suicide. Specifics on sudden infant death syndrome, child abuse, and sexual offenses are also included. The2nd editionis completely revised, updated and expanded to include the topic of child protection.

Sieglinde Ahne, MD, Assistant Physician at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Albert Ludwig University Freiburg

Dr. med. Thomas Ahne, teaching rescue assistant and active emergency doctor, specialist in anaesthesiology, currently in further training as a general practitioner at the Todtnau Health Centre

Prof. Dr. med. Michael Bohnert, Head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg

1. links between emergency and forensic medicine.- 2. crime scene behaviour.- 3. documentation of injuries.- 4. thanatology.- 5. forensic traumatology.- 6. road traffic accidents.- 7. alcohol and drugs.- 8. deaths.- 9. abuse offences.- 10. toxicology.