Note: At the 2009 IABPA meeting in Portland, OR, USA, the IABPA membership voted to adopt the SWGSTAIN recommended terminology.
Definition
- Projected Blood Pattern
- A bloodstain pattern that is produced by blood released under pressure as opposed to an impact, such as arterial spurting.
Bloodstain Example - Projected Blood Pattern
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Description
This pattern was generated by taking blood in a syringe and projecting it near-parallel to the target surface. This was done four times with varying pressure from approximately the same location.
This example shows the result of a stationary blood source releasing blood under pressure.
Alternate Terminology
| Bevel & Gardner | Closest to Spatter Family - Linear - (Arterial) Spurt |
| James, Kish & Sutton | Closest to Spatter - Projected Mechanism - Arterial Spurt/Gush Spray |
| Wonder | Closest to Spatter - Arterial - (Breach) |
| SWGSTAIN | Projected Pattern - A bloodstain pattern resulting from the ejection of a volume of blood under pressure. |