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Tue Mar 27 14:38:14 BST 2007

Does anyone use Post mortem CT?  This is a possible way around the problem.
Tom

>From: Clive Leach <clive at cdleach.wanadoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" 
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>To: Trauma &amp Critical Care mailing list <trauma-list at trauma.org>
>Subject: RE: Autopsy Requests: Scripting & Best Practices
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:02:03 +0200 (CEST)
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>hi
>here in england if anyone dies suddenly and it is unexpected a post mortem 
>is peformed . this has been the norm for many years and since a certain dr 
>shipman murdered so many a few years back it is even more important now.
>regards clive
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>Message Received: Mar 26 2007, 01:01 PM
>From: "Bjorn, Pret"
>To: "Trauma & Critical Care mailing list"
>Cc:
>Subject: Autopsy Requests: Scripting & Best Practices
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>Maine is a state like many in the U.S. WITHOUT mandatory autopsy for
>trauma deaths -- there simply isn't the money for it. As such, deaths
>are referred to local Medical Examiners (mostly general medicine folk),
>who have a look at the record and the corpse and determine whether a
>necropsy would help -- for lack of another motivation -- to determine
>foul play. In short, if you can make it look like accidental
>blunt-force injury, you can probably get away with murder around here.
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>My hospital provides autopsy (gross post mortem only) for trauma deaths
>where the cause is unknown, or when performance issues are in play.
>Problem is, these are voluntary and subject to consent of the family.
>Getting consent is a neat trick, though. I wonder if anyone out there
>is in the same boat, and suffers varying responses from loved ones to
>the option of autopsy.
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>Specifically, I'd be very grateful for any advice on how to present the
>issue to families in the most productive manner possible. Is there any
>winning script, or are there key phrases that maybe we haven't thought
>of?
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>I think our surgeons are very sensitive and encouraging, and quick to
>point out that the service is underwritten by the hospital (should be
>obvious to families, but isn't); but there's a predictable visceral
>reaction to the request that we haven't been able to overcome.
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>Thanks for your thoughts and advice.
>
>Pret Bjorn, RN
>Bangor, ME USA
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