Relación de la traumatología forense en casos de heridas por arma de fuego en atención primaria en salud

Abstract

ABSTRACT Introduction: Forensic Traumatology is the science that describes or studies the injuries caused to a body with the same body of another person or with an object that may be a firearm; injuries are any aggression or damage caused to part or all of a person's or animal's body by an object, animal, person, part of the body or by deprivation of a vital element. Objective: To establish the relationship of forensic traumatology in cases of firearm injuries through a bibliographic review for the correct approach in primary health care. Methodology: The study is carried out in a retrospective descriptive manner through a bibliographic review in the scientific bases of SCIELO, EBSCO, PUBMED, MESH, with information available from 2017 to the present for the extraction of qualitative information, compiling information on the relationship of traumatology in medicolegal cases. Conclusion: Forensic traumatology is a field of legal medicine that involves everything about the injuries that a person can have, due to different types of weapons. In firearms it is essential to recognize with which weapon the act was perpetrated, according to this, it will be possible to recognize the injuries caused, taking into account how the events have occurred.

Keywords: forensic traumatology, gunshot wound, legal medicine, lesionology.