METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CAUSE OF DEATH WITH WRITTEN REFUSALOF POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION
The study is designed to develop a method that replaces the postmortem with a non-invasive method for the examination of cadavers in order to determine the proximate cause of death of a person in a health care institution. A non-invasive method for obtaining information about the state leading to death is proposed. This method involves conducting a complete post-mortal ultrasound investigation, which is formalized by a special protocol in regards to replacing the traditional anatomic pathology report. Twenty features were analyzed during the ultrasound investigation of the cadaver. Eighteen of these features found an accurate morphological verification, representing 90% of the total number. This method can be recommended for use, since the differences between the examinations are not significant (p = 0.166134).