[Forensic medical diagnosis and conclusions in the case of nose bone fracture with blood aspiration into the respiratory tract].

The authors consider the variants of the formulation of forensic medical diagnosis and expert conclusions in the cases of death among the victims of nasal bone fractures and blood aspiration proposed by different researchers. They emphasize the inadmissibility of the formal logical approach in such situations and the necessity of pathogenetic analysis of each concrete case for the elucidation of nosological forms and syndromes responsible for the fatal outcome.

[Biochemical diagnostics of fatal opium intoxication].

Biochemical diagnostics of fatal opium intoxication remains a topical problem in forensic medical science and practice. We investigated materials obtained in the course of forensic medical expertise of the cases of fatal opium intoxication. The study revealed significant differences between myoglobin levels in blood, urine, myocardium, and skeletal muscles. The proposed approach to biochemical diagnostics of fatal opium intoxication enhances the accuracy and the level of evidence of expert conclusions.

[On the possibility of postmortem diagnosis of diabetes mellitus].

The present study has demonstrated that elevated level of glycated haemoglobin in cadaveric blood may be regarded as an absolute diagnostic criterion for diabetes mellitus irrespective of other macro- and/or micropathomorphological signs of this disease.

[Standardization in forensic medicine]. / O standartizatsii v sudebnoi meditsine.

It is for the first time that an issue is raised on the need to introduce a system of standardization into the forensic medical field. A general scheme is suggested of how to do it.

[Discrimination between functions of an expert bureau and a burial firm (topic for discussion)]. / O razdelenii funktsii ékspertnogo uchrezhdeniia i pokhoronnoi organizatsii.

The authors suggest measures aimed at discrimination of the functions performed by forensic medical experts and the services rendered by burial firms. The responsibilities of pathology departments of hospitals and bureaus of forensic medical expert evaluations, which should be reflected in official documents, should be confined to manipulations needed to solve the professional problems and removal of sections. Cases when utilization of certain chemicals or manipulations aimed at restoration of the body are prohibited should be listed in detail. The order of transfer of the body from pathology department or forensic medical bureau to the burial firm and to relatives should be regulated with consideration for the results of autopsy. The moment of the end of autopsy studies is to be determined.