Article
Benefits and outcomes of a new multidisciplinary approach for the management and financing of sudden unexplained death cases in a forensic setting in Switzerland.
Forensic science international - 1 May 2022
Neubauer Jacqueline, Kissel Christine K, Bolliger Stephan A, Barbon Daniela, Thali Michael J, Kloiber Daniel, Bode Peter K, Kovacs Boldizsar, Graf Urs, Maspoli Alessandro, Berger Wolfgang, Saguner Ardan M, Haas Cordula
Abstract excerpt
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is an important public health issue. In young persons aged between 1 and 40 years, most SCDs are caused by potentially inherited cardiac diseases, often not detectable during conventional medico-legal investigations and therefore termed as sudden unexplained deaths (SUD). In this study, we describe the implementation, feasibility and importance of a standardized procedure to investigate...
Topics
- Autopsy
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Pilot Projects
- Switzerland