THE CLAIM: You have to keep stitches dry and covered up after surgery. THE FACTS: The instructions for caring for fresh stitches are fairly universal: Keep the sutures clean and dry and avoid getting them wet for at least 48 hours. Doing so, the thinking goes, sharply reduces the rate of infection and improves healing.
Forensic toxicology is the use of toxicology and other disciplines such as analytical chemistry, pharmacology and clinical chemistry to aid medical or legal investigation of death, poisoning, and drug use.
Discuss the factors that affect and/or modify the actions of poisons. Describe the autopsy procedures involved in a case of poisoning including the relevant samples to be submitted for toxicological analysis. Describe any postmortem findings specific to the various types of poisons. Discuss poisoning from a West Indian (Caribbean) perspective. A poison is difficult to define. It may be of animal, vegetable or mineral origin.