Importancia de la docimasia pulmonar para establecer la existencia de vida extrauterina de un recién nacido

Abstract

In this paper we have condensed the importance of pulmonary docimasia, as an auxiliary method of forensic medicine made within the necropsy by the coroner at the request of the parties in a process of investigation into the death of a newborn through examinations post- mortem; It is serving for diagnosis in an investigation of a murder, knowing the existence of extrauterine life of a newborn. The main thing in such cases is whether the child was born alive or dead, to be considered stillborn or victim in a homicide case. The results are interpreted in conceptualizing if there was breathing, appearance and color of the lungs serve the medical examiner to perform a complete report thereon. A test whose result is based on whether there was life, the life of the infant and the possibility of establishing the degree of maturity of the child