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    This document provides a checklist for clinicians to follow when performing post-mortem examinations for patients who died of febrile illnesses. It lists important clinical records to review including lab tests, serology results, and vital signs. During the post-mortem exam, it instructs clinicians to examine the external appearance, take imprints of organs, and look for characteristic pathological features in the brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and other tissues that may indicate the cause of death.

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    This document provides a checklist for clinicians to follow when performing post-mortem examinations for patients who died of febrile illnesses. It lists important clinical records to review including lab tests, serology results, and vital signs. During the post-mortem exam, it instructs clinicians to examine the external appearance, take imprints of organs, and look for characteristic pathological features in the brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and other tissues that may indicate the cause of death.

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    This document provides a checklist for clinicians to follow when performing post-mortem examinations for patients who died of febrile illnesses. It lists important clinical records to review including lab tests, serology results, and vital signs. During the post-mortem exam, it instructs clinicians to examine the external appearance, take imprints of organs, and look for characteristic pathological features in the brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and other tissues that may indicate the cause of death.

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    DATE P M REG WARD/ AGE/SEX PROVISIONAL SALIENT SEROLOGY/

    NO NO UNIT CAUSE OF PM MP
    DEATH FINDINGS STATUS/
    PLATELET
    COUNT
    CHECK LISTS WHILE PERFOMING FEBRILE ILLNESS
    POST MORTEMS

    CLINICAL RECORDS

    - HISTORY & CLINICAL FINDINGS.

    - LAB INVESTIGATIONS
    SEROLOGY OF LEPTO & DENGUE.
    MALARIAL PARASITE STATUS.
    CBC & PLATELET COUNT.
    LFT- BILIRUBIN & ENZYMES.
    RENAL FUNCTION TESTS.
    BLOOD GASES ANALYSIS.

    DURING POST MORTEM

    - EXTERNAL EXAMINATION- CONJUCTIVAL SUFFUSION, ICTERUS.

    - TAKE IMPRINTS OF LIVER, SPLEEN & BONE MARROW.

    - LOOK OUT FOR FOLLOWING FEATURES DURING PM

    BRAIN - PETECHIAE, HEMORRHAGES, EDEMA & CONGESTION.

    LUNGS - ARDS, INTRAPULMONARY HEMORRHAGES, SEVERE


    CONGESTION,EDEMA & CONSOLIDATION.

    HEART – PETECHIAE, SOFT FLABBY.

    LIVER – FOCAL NECROSIS, MOTTLING, HEMMORHAGES,


    CHOLESTASIS, CONGESTION & SLATE GRAY COLOR.

    KIDNEY – CLOUDY, PETECHIAE & CONGESTION.

    SPLEEN - ENLARGEMENT, CONGESTED, SOFT, HEMORRHAGES


    & SLATE GRAY COLOR.

    MISCELLANEOUS- MUCOSAL & SEROSAL HEMORRHAGES.

    - SECTIONS OF SKELETAL MUSCLE, ADRENALS, PANCREAS, BONE


    MARROW & CORONARY ARTEIES ARE TO BE KEPT IN ADDITION
    TO ABOVE ORGANS.

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