On the issue of a comprehensive diagnosis of death coming in the late postmortem period

Abstract

According to specialized literature and the results of our own experiments to carry out a comprehensive study to find criteria for determining the time of death in the late postmortem period. It turned out that a combined assessment of microbiological, entomological and biophysical data obtained in the study of a corpse is advisable for medical diagnostics of the duration of the postmortem interval, which does not exclude the need to compare them with the results obtained by traditional morphological methods. From an applied point of view, it is very important to «standardize» the conditions of such studies. For an in-depth study of the nature of cause-and-effect relationships of phenomena occurring in biological tissues in the late postmortem period, it is very interesting to perform microbiological, entomological and biophysical studies under different environmental conditions, but according to a single program and on a single methodological basis.