CLURIT WOUND STRAIGHT TO THE HEART: A CASE REPORT
Deka Bagus Binarsa (a*,c), Ahmad Yudianto (b,d), Thathit Bimo Tangguh Setiogung (a)
a. Forensic Medicine and Medicolegal Specialist Program (PPDS), Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga.
*dekaworkmail[at]gmail.com
b. Department of Forensic Medicine and Medicolegal, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga.
c. Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang
d. Forensic Science Program, Postgraduate School, Universitas Airlangga.
Abstract
Crimes against someone lives in Indonesia are still above a thousand cases per year. One of these murder that occurred due to sharp violence. Clurit (a local sickle shaped weapon with sharp side inside the curve and dull side at otherside) is used by farmers in Indonesia to find grass as cow fodder, but it can also be used to injure other people and cause chop wounds. Chop wounds require objects that are rather sharp/ sharp, heavy in mass, and need to be swung with medium or high energy to cause it. Investigators ask the doctor to do an autopsy. At the autopsy, the doctor found a big wound was on the chest and appeared to pierce through the bone to the chest cavity. The heart covering membrane is cut off to the back side. The heart of this victim is found rupture, and split parallel to the mitral-tricuspid valves. The cause of this person death due to damage to the heart by murder.
Keywords: local weapon, heart, rupture, autopsy.
Topic: Law, Police and Forensic