novice forensic medicine

Chapter 5 The Cause of Death Found

Zhou Ning shook his head.

"Xu Da, you just said that you should check more, but I didn't understand."

Xu Dayuan laughed twice.

"Come on, you boys are all at the age of turmoil, pretend to be innocent with me, what do you want to check?"

Saying that Xu Da raised his hand, Zhou Ning hurriedly dodged it, but his mind flashed, and he wanted to understand Xu Dayuan's meaning, isn't it just Chu Yumo, what are you doing secretly.

"I understand, I understand!"

Xu Dayuan put his hands down and put his hat back on, as if he wasn't the one who was going to hit someone just now.

"By the way, is there any new progress here?"

Zhou Ning was a little embarrassed. Could he say that if the school badge hadn't been stuck on me, I wouldn't have noticed?
"I just talked with my master on the phone, and I measured it here."

"Tell me the result."

"The time of death of the deceased is estimated to be between 9:27 and 2:00 this morning on September 3. Later, my master will come over after the injection, and then the autopsy will start. I have never done this independently."

Xu Dayuan glanced at the time, it was already 11:40, it would be unrealistic to start doing it at noon.

"Success, when the cause of death comes out, notify me as soon as possible. By the way, the police will notify you."

Speaking of which, Xu Dayuan threw it to Zhou Ning's police report, turned around and left, Zhou Ning looked it up and down, no matter how you look at it, it looks familiar, isn't this Xiao Liu's?

Zhou Ning was speechless for a while, glanced at the corpse, and his stomach growled.

Brother is hungry, they just left, what about lunch?

Zhou Ning opened the door and went out. As expected, Xiao Liu was gone, and he sighed with his wrong teeth.

It's useless to complain, and if you delay lunch, it will be ruined.

He trotted out and went directly to the mortuary. Unexpectedly, Xiao Liu and an old man were squatting here smoking a cigarette. When Zhou Ning came over, he subconsciously put the cigarette behind him.

"Xiao Zhou, forensic doctor, you startled me, why did you come out?"

Seeing someone she knew, Zhou Ning also breathed a sigh of relief, staying alone with the corpse, although not afraid, but definitely not feeling good, even though the girl was so beautiful once.

"Help me send the corpse to the freezer first, and do the autopsy in the afternoon after dinner."

Xiao Liu and the old man both stood up and put out the cigarette butts together. It was clear at a glance that the old man was in charge of the mortuary, a job that no young man would want to do.

The three of them packed the body into bags and sent it to the freezer on a flat cart. Zhou Ning removed his outfit and washed his hands several times before leaving the dissection room.

Xiao Liu bared his teeth at Zhou Ning and raised a bag in his hand.

"It's from the hospital cafeteria, where should we eat it?"

Before Zhou Ning could speak, the old man pointed to the gazebo in the south of the yard, where there were stone tables and benches.

Zhou Ning was not hypocritical. The cafeteria gave people boxed lunches. It is estimated that Forensic Doctor Liu had this habit before, and he didn't want to eat in the dissection room.

Although I didn't respond, but during the autopsy in the afternoon, some food smells wafted out, which made my stomach feel uncomfortable just thinking about it.

Pulling the old man, the three of them had a good meal, braised peppers in oil, braised saury in brown sauce, roast meat, hot and sour potato shreds, four boxes of vegetables, four boxes of rice, and the three of them ate them all like a storm.

After all, there was plenty of time, and the three chatted a lot. Zhou Ning also learned that Xiao Liu's name was Liu Yong, and his father was a traffic policeman. He hoped that he could be a part of the team, so he followed him as a police assistant.

Zhou Ning drank a bottle of water and rested for a while. After checking that the time was 01:30, he called Liu Forensic Doctor.

"Master!"

"Have you monitored it? I just finished my injection here, and I'm waiting for my wife to push me over."

Liu Yong collected the things quickly, and the old man waved his hand to go to the morgue. He had to go with Liu Yong to take out the corpse.

Zhou Ning got up and looked towards the small road on the south side of the yard. From Liu Forensic Doctor's words, he deduced that he was in the county hospital.

After waiting for a while, Liu Fayi was pushed by his wife and walked over. Seeing the plaster cast on his leg, Zhou Ning knew that he would have to do the autopsy himself later.

He hurried forward and greeted Liu Fayi's daughter-in-law. Liu Fayi asked his daughter-in-law to go back first, and then called to pick him up. His daughter-in-law didn't speak, but her face was full of worry.

"Don't worry, Auntie, I won't let Forensic Doctor Liu do it. Just help me check it out. After all, it's my first autopsy, and I really don't know what to do."

After taking the wheelchair, Zhou Ning quickly explained.

The woman waved her hand.

"Knowing that it's not easy for you, hurry up and go to the toilet and hold back, don't let the young people do it for you, it's shameful."

Forensic Liu blushed.

"Come on, you nag!"

Zhou Ning didn't dare to laugh, and pushed Forensic Doctor Liu to the dissection room. As soon as he came in and saw the corpse, Forensic Liu put on reading glasses and asked Xiao Liu to stand up with difficulty.

"It's miserable enough, have you found the information on the deceased?"

Zhou Ning gave an introduction, and handed the existing information he had summarized, as well as the results of the autopsy to Forensic Doctor Liu, and of course the X-ray films, which Zhou Ning didn't quite understand.

"Boy, you did a good job. Xiao Liu can get me a taller chair, the one next to the microscope, right!"

Xiao Liu was instructed to find a chair that could be raised and lowered. Forensic doctor Liu sat on it, and with his uninjured foot, he kicked the floor to move to the other side of the dissecting bed.

"Cut off the clothes, start the body surface inspection, and then you start the dissection, don't worry, everyone has the first time, I am here when I make a mistake, it doesn't matter if you do it slowly, I will tell you the steps, first routine and then focus on the right That stab wound in the side rib."

Zhou Ning nodded. After a whole morning of torment and digesting the on-site forensic study at noon, he was no longer as dazed as he was in the morning. With Forensic Doctor Liu beside him, he had a lot of confidence in his mind.

Liu Yong rushed out when he heard that an autopsy was required.

Zhou Ning dressed neatly, gave Liu the forensic doctor a mask, and a retractable pole. Standing beside the anatomy bed and holding scissors, Zhou Ning cut off the deceased's clothes and placed them on the table next to him. and remove.

The characteristics of the corpse were recorded one by one, from pupils, conjunctiva, nasal cavity, mouth, vulva to toes, step by step according to the command of forensic doctor Liu, Zhou Ning carefully observed and recorded.

After finishing this, Zhou Ning looked up at Forensic Doctor Liu, who slapped the pole in his hand on the dissecting table.

"Don't be dazed, let's start, first check the wound on the lower edge of the rib with a probe."

Zhou Ning was wearing two layers of latex gloves. He crossed his fingers and fitted the glove to his hand completely. He grabbed a blunt probe and tried to insert it into the origin-shaped wound on the lower edge of the deceased's ribs. One probe was inserted into the wound. For the most part, it seems that it is not the end.

Shaking left and right, little activity.

Fayi Liu gasped, stretched his head and tried to look here.

"It's deep enough, change to a long probe, and then measure the width of the wound, such a narrow wound, how can it be so deep?"

Zhou Ning changed a probe with a thicker oblate head, and carefully pierced the wound. This time it reached the bottom, and it seemed that the front end could still move up and down.

I measured the length, and found that it was 185 mm, and the width was only 6 mm. I observed the edge of the wound with a magnifying glass, and there was a point protruding from the circle on the left and right sides. The two points were on the same level, and some black grease was found mixed in clotted blood.

Zhou Ning scraped off the grease with a razor blade, put it on a glass slide, and handed it to Forensic Doctor Liu.

"Master, I don't know what the black grease in the wound is, but the wound is so narrow, such a thin and long weapon"

Zhou Ning paused, seeing Liu Forensic also staring at him with encouraging eyes.

"Screwdriver, it's the kind of extremely slender screwdriver. I see many computer repairers use this kind of thing."

Physician Liu slapped his thigh, the movement shook his injured leg, and he grinned in pain.

"You're not bad, kid. Didn't it come out through the analysis? It pierced the lower edge of the ribs at this position. The deceased's internal organs must have been seriously damaged. Cut it quickly and be careful with your hands! As for the oil sample, it will be sent for inspection later."

Zhou Ning looked at Fayi Liu gratefully. This little old man knew what the murder weapon was just now, and he just waited for his own judgment. Such a master is really touching.

Holding the scalpel without any nonsense, he began to cut the chest and abdomen wall from the neck to the lower abdomen. As soon as he cut open, he saw that the abdominal cavity was full of black and purple blood clots.

"Don't worry about it, take a sample and continue."

Zhou Ning nodded and followed suit, then separated the muscle tissue and ribs, checked the lungs and heart, and took the contents of the stomach.

He held up everything for Forensic Doctor Liu to see. Forensic Doctor Liu kept correcting Zhou Ning's movements. He forgot to be nervous from cutting the knife tremblingly to checking the various organs at the end.

After cleaning up most of the coagulated blood clots, when Zhou Ning was about to check his spleen, Doctor Liu's pole hit Zhou Ning's arm.

"Don't rush to use the knife, look at the place where the lower edge of the right rib is pierced, did it hurt the spleen?"

Zhou Ning held up the probe and poked it into the stab wound, and sure enough, his spleen moved accordingly. Forensic Liu nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay, the cause of death has been found."

Zhou Ning paused.

"Master, is this the only way to do the dissection?"

(End of this chapter)