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Routine dissection of the cadaver followed by
mandatory and ancillary investigations is still
the most widely used method in forensic
autopsy throughout the globe. In contrast to
most other disciplines of medicine,
instruments used in routine autopsy work
remain plain, simple, unsophisticated and
virtually unchanged for over a century.
Incorporation of modern technology to
improve these instruments to meet the new
challenges such as minimizing the risk of biohazards, acquisition of precision in dissection,
facilities for simultaneous imaging, sampling
and archiving the information and finally
making the dissection a less cumbersome a
task with lesser degree of dependability on
individual human skills has become the need
of the day. The authors briefly discuss few
initiative steps taken along this long pathway
