Описание
Giving practical advice from the point of view of the healthcare provider, this book supplies the tools with which emergency personnel and others can ensure that evidence is recognized, preserved, and collected properly. Photographs and diagrams help convey methods of documenting findings using body maps, photographic techniques, and narrative descriptors. Readers learn how to collect wet and dry evidence, establish the chain of evidence, and follow custody of forensic specimens. Along with practical directions for forensic examination, the book provides policies and procedures to guide the examiner so that the evidence stands up in court.