Death

Question 1

Explain the criteria for referring a death to the coroner

Answer 1

Suspicious
Unnatural
Violent
Unexpected
Unknown
Custody or prison
During operation or prior recovery from anaesthetic
Industrial disease or accident

Question 2

Signs unequivocal with death

Answer 2

Decapitation
Massive cranial or cerebral destruction
Decomposition
Incineration
Hypostasis
Rigor mortis
Fetal maceration in a newborn

Question 3

List circumstances you would not start CPR

Answer 3

Signs unequivocal with death
Arrest >15 minutes with no bystander CPR, AND >30 seconds asystole AND no exclusion factors
DNACPR / ReSPECT / EOL