ABMDI Board (F-ABMDI) case studies
ABMDI Board (F-ABMDI) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) is a voluntary, national, not-for-profit, independent professional certification board established to promote the highest standards of practice for medicolegal death investigators. ABMDI certifies individuals who have the proven knowledge and skills necessary to perform medicolegal death investigations as set forth in the National Institute of Justice 1999 publication Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator (a 2011 updated version is available). The ABMDI Board (F-ABMDI) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,666 words.
1The Hospice Patient with a Pressure Injury and a County Line
At 03:10, staff at a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in County A find an 82-year-old woman unresponsive in her bed. She has been on hospice for end-stage COPD for five months; her chart documents a Stage 3 sacral pressure injury first noted eleven days ago.
702 words, about 4 min2The Cut-Down Hanging and a Deputy Who Wants a Closed Casket
You are called at 06:40 to a two-story rental. A 34-year-old man is supine on the living-room floor with a 2 cm-wide braided cord still looped around his neck and a 40 cm free end.
729 words, about 4 min3The Wallet That Belongs to Somebody Else
A decomposed body is found in a drainage culvert beside a county road. The wallet in the trouser pocket holds a driver's license for "R.T.," age 41, listing a height of 183 cm, plus two $50 bills and a pawn ticket dated nine days earlier.
746 words, about 4 min4The Basement Staircase and a Changing Account
A 67-year-old man is found dead at the base of his basement staircase. His wife says she heard a thud at 22:30 and found him at 23:00.
751 words, about 4 min5Pulmonary Embolism, a Hip Fracture, and a Neighbor at the Rehab
A 71-year-old woman fell down four porch steps 19 days ago and sustained a displaced left femoral neck fracture. She was hospitalized, underwent internal fixation, and was discharged to a rehabilitation facility.
738 words, about 4 min