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| [2020] 2. Moon-Young Kim, Harin Cheong, Hyung-Seok Kim, The Working Group for Standard Autopsy Guideline for COVID-19 from The Korean Society for Legal Medicine (KSLM) |
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Publication; issue : 2020 Year 44 Vol 2 iss 54 p
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Proposal of the Autopsy Guideline for Infectious Diseases: Preparation for the Post-COVID-19 Era Korean J Leg Med 2020;44:54-75
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Institute of Forensic and Anthropological
Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea,
Department of Forensic Medicine, College of
Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea,
Department of Forensic Medicine, Chonnam
National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
E-mail: veritas@jnu.ac.kr
With the rapidly spreading coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic over the past few months, the world is facing
an unprecedented crisis. Innumerable lives have been lost to this novel
infectious disease, the nature of which supersedes conventional medical
understanding. People around the world are sacrificing their daily lives and
enduring the crisis regardless of national boundaries and cultural backgrounds.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a global health crisis, several aspects of
life in the post-COVID-19 era are also being contemplated. Experts in unison
are warning that the upcoming changes in all areas of life could potentially be
far more drastic than ever experienced in the entire human civilization. The
medical community is no exception, and therefore, personnel involved in
forensic medicine also need to be adequately prepared for the future. Forensic
medicine is a branch of medicine dedicated to one of the most important stages
of the human lifecycle and has always been at the forefront in times of
unprecedented social change. We present new autopsy guidelines in forensic
medicine, formulated based on the various infectious diseases that we presently
live with and may encounter in the future. In formulation of these guidelines
several considerations have been taken into account, namely, the role forensic
pathologists should play in the post-COVID-19 era and the necessary
preparations as well as the support needed from society to fulfill that role.
The present COVID-19 outbreak should be a starting point for formulating
improvements in current practices in forensic science, including autopsy
biosafety practices and the medicolegal death investigation system.
Key Words: Autopsy; Infectious disease;
Guideline; COVID-19; Forensic medicine
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