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01.04.2010 | Review

Clinical review: What is the role for autopsy in the ICU?

verfasst von: Greet Yvonne Agnes De Vlieger, Elien Marie Jeanne Lia Mahieu, Wouter Meersseman

Erschienen in: Critical Care | Ausgabe 2/2010

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Abstract

The availability of advanced diagnostic tools has grown in the past decades. Hence, a growing false belief exists that everything is known about the patient before death. Moreover, intensivists may wrongly believe that autopsy findings do not contribute to the understanding of pathophysiological events. The immediate result is that few ICUs nowadays assemble enough autopsy cases with new and interesting clinicopathological features. However, we believe that, at least in tertiary ICUs, autopsies remain a valuable examination, as a tool for quality control, as a way of establishing gold standards for diagnostic examinations and as an aid in developing guidelines for treatment and diagnosis of diseases frequently encountered in the ICU. Finally, due to the ever-expanding armamentarium of immunosuppressive agents, a growing list of opportunistic infections is discovered during autopsy. The present article gives an overview of autopsy studies conducted in the ICU and discusses the pros and cons of performing these.
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Metadaten
Titel
Clinical review: What is the role for autopsy in the ICU?
verfasst von
Greet Yvonne Agnes De Vlieger
Elien Marie Jeanne Lia Mahieu
Wouter Meersseman
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2010
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Critical Care / Ausgabe 2/2010
Elektronische ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8925

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