Socially-legal and biomedical significance of ascertaining cause-effect relations in forensic medicine practice
The analysis of expert materials when ascertaining causation in cases of sufferers' death at scenes of accidents and in hospitals of the city (St. Petersburg) has defined great numbers of expert reports (investigations) concerning ascertainment of sufferers' cause-effect relations with mechanical injuries; in this connection, cases with blunt traumas have been investigated more often than not and among the latter for the greater part — motor vehicle accidents. Medical assessors should remember that in medicolegal practice only medicobiologic problems are resolved, hence, it is necessary to ascertain the connection between a trauma and its consequences.