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Contents: Introduction to clinical autopsy
In this video-lesson, we will briefly explain some of the main theoretical aspects of this unit. The following video provides most of the basic information necessary to pass the test. You may also download a PDF archive with expanded data about this unit.
7. Clinical autopsy request procedure
1) Informed consent signed by deceased’s relatives or tutors.
2) Death certificate. The physicial requestion the autopsy must write the basic or initial cause, the intermediate cause and immediate cause as their suspicions and clinical criteria.
3) Autopsy request. It can be performed using analogically or electronically depending on the hospital.