| ||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||



*Service dAnesthésie et de Réanimation, Hôpital Bichat, Paris; and
Service de Médecine Légale, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Philippe Juvin, Service dAnesthésie et de Réanimation, Hôpital Bichat, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France. Address e-mail to pjuvin @free.fr.
Implications: This report demonstrates the extremely high yield of autopsies performed in the case of postoperative death with suspicion of malpractice. They frequently identified undetected complications. They could also suggest faulty or negligent practice that would otherwise go unrecognized. This report supports the widespread use of autopsies to investigate perioperative death.
This article has been cited by other articles:
![]() |
M H C Grade, S Zucoloto, J K Kajiwara, M T P Fernandes, L G F Couto, and S B Garcia Trends of accuracy of clinical diagnoses of the basic cause of death in a university hospital J. Clin. Pathol., April 1, 2004; 57(4): 369 - 373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
|