medical and forensic animation for trial attorneys by Cal Shipley, M.D., A.B.F.P.
LIST OF SAMPLE ANIMATIONS
ARDS (Adult Resp. Distress Syndrome)
Coronary stent 2 (cardiac tamponade)
An
angioplasty is performed on an obstruction in a coronary artery near a
large diagonal branch. 2 attempts are made to fully deploy the stent. On
the second pass, plaque is snowplowed across the opening of the diagonal
artery.
This
sequence is a small portion of a complete neonatal resuscitation produced
in the successful defense of a pediatric ICU resuscitation
team.
A
post-surgical spinal wound infection leads to bacterial septicemia. This
portion of the project depicts the movement of bacteria from abscess to
bloodstream, and then the generalized invasion of the bloodstream.
A
portion of a gallbladder surgery project depicting the clamping and
division of the cystic duct.
Generalized
bacteremia results in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. This portion of
the animation depicts the filling of pulmonary alveoli with serous fluid
(pulmonary edema).
This
animation was produced in the successful defense of an Emergency
Department physician who administered a dopamine antagonist to a patient
to control vomiting. The sample depicts the binding of the drug with
dopaminergic receptors at the level of the neuronal synapse.
An
angioplasty is performed on a patient with a re-obstruction of a
coronary artery bypass graft. When the stent is placed, the graft
ruptures. This cuts off blood flow to the distribution of the right
coronary artery, resulting in an acute myocardial infarction. Hemorrhage
from the ruptured graft fills the pericardial sac, causing acute cardiac
tamponade and subsequent cardiac arrest.