Homicide Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated)

Homicide Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) What are the most common ways that health care killers use to kill their victims? * - answerInjections, Suffocation, Equip Tampering, Poisoning, Oral meds, Air embolus, Water in lungs The Yorker and Fields Studies * - answerThey found 86% of their cases involved nursing personnel and that women were involved in 55% of the cases prosecuted. In the U.S., over 70% of murders occur in hospital settings. - answerNumber of Cases Investigated in the U.S. 1970's--2 1980's--12 1990's--11 —19 In the U.S. licensed nurses who used injections administered medications such as insulin, epinephrine, or potassium chloride into intravenous lines. - answerNurses in Europe were more likely to use morphine. Poisons commonly used by female serial killers in health care settings - answerDIGOXIN: a powerful heart medication used primarily to improve the pumping ability of the heart in cases of congestive heart failure. It is also used to help normalize some dysrhythmias (abnormal types of heartbeat). POTASSIUM CHLORIDE: Cardiac dysrhythmias and arrest are the likely cause of death following potassium overdose. It is a prescription drug used to replace potassium in persons with low blood levels of potassium, to prevent potassium depletion in specific diseases or resulting from specific drug therapies, and to help lower mild high blood pressure in some people. ADRENALINE: a hormone produced by the adrenal medulla, with the purpose of releasing neurotransmitters into the bloodstream to increase heart activity and increase the rate and depth of breathing. SUCCINYLCHOLINE: a neuromuscular paralytic agent, it is relatively undetectable. Used as an anesthetic to relax muscles during surgery. FENTANYL: "The perfect poison", is 80 times more powerful than morphine and is odorless and tasteless. Google search Kristin Rossum. Drugs Used for Murder in the Health Care Professions - answerOpiates and Opiods, KCI, Pancuronium, Succinyl choline, digoxin, lidocaine, epinephrine Kimberly Saenz - answerSaenz used bleach to inject and kill 6 dialysis patients in a Texas hospital. Several other patients were seriously injured. Saenz was convicted in 2012. Efren Saldivar - answerAmerican serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist.He killed his patients by injecting a paralytic drug which led to respiratory and/or cardiac arrest. These drugs could have included Morphine and Suxamethonium chloride as they were found in his locker with fresh and used syringes.[1] Pancuronium (brand name Pavulon) definitely was used in six murders;[2] this drug is used to stop a patient's respiration when they are about to be put on a medical ventilator. He was careful in the selection of his victims, choosing those who were unconscious and close to death. This led to no easily detectable rise in the rate or distribution of patient deaths when he was on duty. This in turn hampered the investigation, as there were no easily discernible correlations between changes in the distribution or rate of deaths and his shift pattern (a commonly used tool in examining whether malpractice is taking place Dr. Heinrich Gross Profile - answerHeinrich Gross (14 November 1915 - 15 December 2005) was an Austrian psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program. His role in hundreds of other cases of infanticide is unclear. Gross was head of the Spiegelgrund children's psychiatric clinic for two years during World War II.[1] A significant element of the controversy surrounding Gross' activities is that after the children had been murdered, parts of their bodies, particularly their brains, were preserved and retained for future study for decades after the murders. It was only on 28 April 2002 that the preserved remains of these murdered children were finally buried. Donald Harvey profile A.K.A.: "Angel of Death" - answerAmerican serial killer who claims to have murdered 87 people. The official estimates of the number of people he murdered range anywhere from 36 to 57 deaths. He is a self-professed "Angel of Death".Dating as far back as the age of eighteen, Harvey had worked in and around the medical profession, beginning his career as an orderly at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky. He later confessed that during the