FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cardiovascular Disease, Respiratory Arrest, Asphyxia
14 Dec 2015
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More than 1 way to write cause of death. Convey an understanding of what natural disease process, injury, event or combination led to a death. Purpose: statistics, research, surveillance design of public health and medical interventions, funding decisions for research and development, legal document, heart disease, accidents, suicide. Form is filled out by coroners, doctors or certain nurses. Coroners consultant: unable to satisfactorily answer any f the 5 questions (hp, when, where, why, how) Possible involvement in the criminal justice system. Physiological and/or biochemical process by which the death came: cardiac arrhythmia, respiratory arrest, sepsis, multiple-system organ failure. Explains how the cause of death came about. Natural, accident, suicide, homicide (noon-culpable; self-defence, police), undetermined. Injury (chemical or physical) and/or disease that initiates a train of physiological disturbances that, no matter how brief or prolonged, resulted in the fatal termination of an individuals life.
