Details and Registration (FREE): https://www.facebook.com/events/931612364328065
California IAFN/CalSAFE membership,
Hello! The next training from the SoCal IAFN Chapter and CalSAFE is Monday May 3rd from 1300-1500. FREE to all forensic examiners and open to MDT partners(feel free to share this email). $10 for CEUs for non-SoCal chapter or CalSAFE members. The Zoom invite is below along with the description, objectives, and bios of our presenters. This lecture was offered at the IAFN conference in 2020 and it is extremely interesting and relevant as we are looking beyond strangulation. I listened to it twice during the online conference and look forward to watching it again and learning more!
This lecture will NOT be recorded.
The evaluation and CEU information will be sent out after the lecture (the recording and eval from the Unstranger Danger event will be sent out later this week)
Description: Co-occuring Criminal Asphyxiation
This presentation will discuss individuals ( adult and pediatric) who have experienced co-occurring cases of criminal asphyxiation (COCA), defined as a criminal fatal/ non-fatal assault involving more than one type of asphyxiation through case studies. It will discuss a variety of lessons learned, that have changed the way law enforcement, social services, medical, and prosecution now handle these complicated cases and how they can positively influence each other’s assessment. COCA involving fluids can result in fatal or nonfatal respiratory illness that are rarely identified as signs of criminal asphyxiation. Aquatic COCA fatal cases may not even be reported to medical examiners by hospitals as they incorrectly appear as natural deaths. If COCA assaults are staged they are often misdiagnosed as accidental or suicidal drowning. Survivors will likely have additional trauma that goes unrecognized and untreated. This presentation will explain the importance of utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to aid in the recognition and investigation of COCA and will impact the forensic community by raising awareness of the existence of these cases of fatal and nonfatal COCA that include at least one form of aquatic asphyxiation
Objectives:
1. Recognizing signs and symptoms of patients who have experienced co- occurring form s of asphyxiation involving aquatic involvement.
2. Being able to better identify when a person may have suffered asphyxiation involving fluids that may have been staged as some other type of trauma.
3.The learner will be able to enhance their assessment of asphyxiation cases by utilizing specific questions during a medical forensic examination and through the lessons learned by reviewing cases of co occurring asphyxiation