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Grover M. Hutchins, MD
Randy Hanzlick, MD
and the Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists

Arch Intern Med. 1998;158(3):219-220.

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INTRODUCTION

A 28-YEAR-OLD MAN with long-standing asthma was admitted to the hospital in status asthmaticus. Necessary treatment modalities included high-dose methylprednisolone, sedation, and succinylcholine-induced paralysis for intubation. Pulmonary infiltrates were noted on a chest radiograph, and the patient could not be weaned from ventilation use. Decreasing consciousness was observed, and the results of a computed tomographic scan of the head showed ring-enhancing lesions in the right frontal and left parietal cerebral lobes. After rapid neurologic decline, the patient died.

The attending physician asked the medical house officer, who had recently started her internship, to obtain permission to perform an autopsy. However, the house officer had never been taught in medical school how to request permission to perform an autopsy, had never seen an autopsy performed, and was unfamiliar with the procedures involved, making her . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTOPSY FINDINGS

Part 1

COMMENT

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md

Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga

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