MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS can be used in numerous types of cases:

+ Personal Injury
+ Malpractice
+ Surgical Procedures
+ Disease Development
+ Cellular Interaction
+ Radiological Explanation & Highlighting
+ Injury Pattern Identification
+ Biomedical Injuries Associated With Biomechanical Motion
+ Creating Illustrations from Photographs that are Inappropriate for Jury Viewing
+ Illustrating the Accepted Standard of Care
+ Creating Understandable Timelines Documenting the Care of a Patient

In many cases no medical expert is retained. It is important when working with a patient's treating physician that the illustrator has the experience and ability to read and understand medical records in order to prepare preliminary and final illustrations requiring as little time as possible from the doctor.

Condon Production Associates has the ability and experience to work with your experts and doctors to create accurate understandable illustration for any medical application.

The most common materials needed for evaluation of a case are:

+ ER records
+ Triage reports
+ Radiological reports
+ Surgical reports
+ Discharge reports
+ Photographs
+ Radiographs

It is important and also very helpful to experts as well as illustrators to have photographs of injuries and/or medical devices, surgical evidence, treatment progression, the healing process or degenerative process. Some believe that photographs should not be taken of a patient in the hospital. We disagree. Some of the most important evidence in a case can be lost if it is not documented immediately during the first days following an injury.

All injury photographs are important. Photographs should be taken carefully. Overall photographs are important but should be followed by close-up detail photographs that include a scale. All injuries are important even small bruises and abrasions not just the most apparent ones. For example, these photographs can be invaluable to a biomechanical expert trying to reconstruct the kinematics of the patient or client during the injury-causing event.

Injury evidence many times contains patterns that can be matched to specific objects such as a seatbelt, which can be readily apparent or the photographs can be processed in a computer to enhance the pattern for matching to the object. Having these photographs could save expert time and bolster foundational evidence for testimony.

CPA has done numerous illustrations over 20 years and many of them are available as existing art for resale. Check out our Medical Illustration Catalog.