Thread: forensic viva

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(1)gastric lavage contraindicated in all acid poisong except what?
(2) vt is tandom bullet?
(3)cattle poison?

1. Gastric Lavage is Contraindicated in corrosive poisoning except for carbolic acid for fear of rupture of the stomach.
2.Tandem bullets occur when bullet fails to eject the barrel. On second firing, bullets are ejected one after the other. They enter the target at different points.
3.Cattle poisons are used to kill cattles for their hides. Poisons are abrus precatorius, parathion and nux vomica seeds.

Post more questions. Here are some of them:

1. Poisons causing constriction of pupil.
2. BAL is contraindicated in what poison.
3. List the putrefactive changes in the brain. (3stages)

what is negative autopsy??

negative autopsy- when gross,histological,biochemical examination nd lab investigations fail to find out a cause for death then the autopsy is known as negative autopsy...

1.Organophosphorus compound poisoning causes constriction of pupils
2.BAL contraindicated in MeHg poisoning coz it is found to increase MeHg concentration in the brain
3.putrefactive changes in the brain??DONNO..i think change of colour and liquefaction occur...please post this answer.
btw,gastric lavage is also done in oxalic acid poisoning [acc to narayana reddy]

Stages of decomposition in adult brain

> 24 - 48 hrs it becomes soft n purply
> on 3rd day .............. pasty
> 3 - 4 days it is liquified

Originally Posted by Oodesh

Stages of decomposition in adult brain

> 24 - 48 hrs it becomes soft n purply
> on 3rd day .............. pasty
> 3 - 4 days it is liquified

Correct answer

Frequently Asked Questions About Forensic Psychiatry

What is forensic psychiatry?
What is a forensic psychiatrist?
define impulse?
classify mental disorders?
DEfine delusions, hallucination, elusion?
what is psychopathic personality?
What is McNaghten's rule?
what is testamentary capacity?

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• What is forensic psychiatry?
• Application of psychiatry in the administration of justice

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• What is a forensic psychiatrist?
• A person who practises the above

• define impulse?
• Sudden irresistible force compelling a person to the conscious performance of an action without motive or forethought.

• classify mental disorders?
• Psychoses,neuroses,personality disorders,sexual deviation and drug dependance

• DEfine delusions, hallucination, elusion?
• Delusion is a false belief in something which is not a fact, and which persists even after the falsity has been clearly demonstrated.
• Hallucination is a false sense perception,w/o any external object/stimulus to produce it.
• Illusion is a false interpretation by the senses of an external object or stimulus which has a real existence.

• what is psychopathic personality?
• A special mental derangement characterised by lack of normal conscience,absence of normal feelings for other ppl,tendency to antisocial impulsive acts,failure to be prevented from crime by punishment and freedom 4m other mental disorders.

• What is McNaghten's rule?
• An accused person is not criminally responsible if it is proved,that at the time of committing the crime,he was suffering from such a defect of reason from a disease of the mind,that he did not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing,or that what he was doing was wrong.

• what is testamentary capacity?
• Mental ability of a person to make a valid will.

• Define lucid interval
• Oneiroid states??
• Oligophrenia?
• Automatism
• Somnolentia
• Drunkenness