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Big Data and Its Role in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Experiences of Leading Organizations
Published in Soraya Sedkaoui, Mounia Khelfaoui, Nadjat Kadi, Big Data Analytics, 2022
Even the use of so-called oral autopsy help to determine the cause of death. As part of electronic medical records, information can be used for future visits or to remind patients of the need to follow up on visits or medical interventions. By increasing the effectiveness of data use massive collected during the provision of services, the global energy system becomes more efficient and less polluting. And vital services such as health and education become more effective and easier to obtain.
Criminal Law
Published in Thomas D. Schneid, Safety Law, 2018
The Cook County medical examiner performed an autopsy on Golab the following day. Although the medical examiner initially indicated Golab could have died from cardiac arrest, he reserved final determination of death pending examination of results of toxicological laboratory tests on Golab’s blood and other body specimens. After receiving the toxicological report, the medical examiner determined Golab died from acute cyanide poisoning through the inhalation of cyanide fumes in the plant air.
Evidence Collection and the Daubert Standard
Published in John R. Fletemeyer, Ivonne Schmid, Principles and Practices of Aquatic Law, 2018
Moreover, it is essential to obtain a full medical history of the deceased prior to an examination of the body. The medical examiner or police investigators should collect the information and make it known to the forensic pathologist before the autopsy begins. Evidence also includes the past history of the decedent, as in the case of a bathtub drowning.
The Development and Implementation of an Autopsy/ Tissue Donation for Breast Cancer Research
Published in The New Bioethics, 2021
Margaret Rosenzweig, Lori A. Miller, Adrian V. Lee, Steffi Oesterreich, Humberto E. Trejo Bittar, Jennifer M. Atkinson, Ann Welsh
At the time of death: At death, the coordinator arranges for the body to be transported to the morgue, alerts the pathologist who will perform the autopsy/tissue donation and alerts the research lab personnel to be in place for tissue processing. The pathology team makes tremendous effort to perform the autopsy/tissue donation as soon as the patient arrives at the morgue, optimally within 6 h. All pathology aspects are handled by the Autopsy and Forensic Pathology Center of Excellence / Decedent Affairs Service of UPMC. The clinical coordinator and the pathologist at the time of autopsy/tissue donation review recent CT scans and clinical notes to delineate the areas with the heaviest tumour burden. A research autopsy/tissue donation including sampling of all known tumour as well as lesions suspicious for malignancy, is performed within 4–6 h of the patient’s death. The brain is only autopsied if there is known metastatic disease. The autopsy/tissue donation is performed in a manner that allows for an open casket viewing. Samples are collected in tubes containing tissue culture media (DMEM containing 1x penn/strep, 0.25ug/ml amphotericin B) and stored on ice. De-identified tumour and normal (control) tissue samples are delivered to the laboratory. The body is then transported to patient’s funeral home. A note of sympathy is sent to the family, expressing the gratitude of the team, for the invaluable contribution to breast cancer research.
Belted driver fatalities: Time of death and risk by injury severity
Published in Traffic Injury Prevention, 2018
David C. Viano, Chantal S. Parenteau
Bansal et al. (2009) determined cause of death by autopsy in hourly intervals for those who died within 24 h. Of 167 deaths, 73 (43.7%) occurred within the first hour. Brain injury was the most common cause of death in all hourly intervals, but hemorrhage was as or more important than brain injury as the cause of death during the first 3–6 h. No deaths were attributable to hemorrhage after 12 h. Kauvar et al. (2006) found that hemorrhage was responsible for 30–40% of the deaths, 33–56% of which occurred during the prehospital period. Among those who reached care, early mortality was caused by continued hemorrhage, coagulopathy, and incomplete resuscitation.
Postmortem injury quantification for the fatally injured cyclists in the Osijek–Baranja county over a 21-year period
Published in Traffic Injury Prevention, 2021
Elizabeta Matuzalem Marinović, Anton Mažuranić, Pero Bubalo, Slavica Martinović, Vedrana Petrovečki
The cause of death was determined by a forensic autopsy performed by a forensic pathology specialist. External examination and autopsy of the internal organs of deceased cyclists identified and described all the injuries, and the dominant injury that led to vital endangerment was enrolled in the autopsy protocol as the cause of death. In the case of concurrent competitive vital injuries, as a cause of death, the forensic pathologist cites multiple injuries.