Session 2-'Learning From The Dead'

Question 1

What alternative terms for autopsy?

Answer 1

Post-mortem

Necropsy

Question 2

What are the types of autopsy? (3)

Answer 2

1) medicolegal (on behalf of coroner)
2) forensic
3) consent (hospital)

Question 3

What is involved in an autopsy?

Answer 3

History
External examination
Internal examination

Question 4

What is an extradural haemorrhage?

Answer 4

Collection of blood in the space between the skull and the outer protective lining that covers the brain

Question 5

What happens in an extradural haemorrhage?

Answer 5

As blood accumulates, it takes up space and raises the intercranial pressure. This eventually compromises centres controlling respiration and heart function and death follows

Question 6

What happens in a subdural haemorrhage?

Answer 6

Blood vessels are damaged and blood accumulates in the subdural space

Question 7

True or false: an elderly person with a subdural haemorrhage suffers from a slow deterioration of cognitive abilities

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

Where does a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage occur?

Answer 8

Bleeding between brain and arachnoid layer

Question 9

What are the two types of stroke?

Answer 9

1) ischaemic (cerebral infarction)

2) haemorrhagic (cerebral haemorrhage)

Question 10

What is cardiomyopathy?

Answer 10

Non-ischaemic, non-inflammatory disease of heart muscle