3rd Edition

The Hospital Autopsy A Manual of Fundamental Autopsy Practice, Third Edition

By Julian Burton, Guy Rutty Copyright 2010
    364 Pages 110 Color Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Now in full colour, this new and revised edition of The Hospital Autopsy presents a clear and systematic approach to safe and effective modern autopsy practice for pathologists. It begins by discussing issues such as legislation governing autopsies, religious attitudes and ensuring safety, before covering the procedures of external examination, evisceration, dissection of internal organs and report writing. Six new chapters have been added and contemporary specialist techniques, such as near virtual autopsy, are covered in depth, with chapters devoted to complex issues including perinatal autopsies, maternal deaths and autopsies where the cause of death is unascertained.

    The Hospital Autopsy is an indispensable resource for pathologists in training, as well as a concise reference for practicing pathologists and autopsy technicians.

    The history of the autopsy
    The future of the autopsy
    The role of the autopsy in medical education
    Autopsies and the law
    Religious attitudes to death and post-mortem examinations
    The safe and healthy autopsy
    Autopsies of people with high-risk infections
    The external examination
    The pathology of wounds and injuries
    The evisceration
    Dissection of the internal organs
    Examination of the nervous system
    Fetal, perinatal and infant autopsies
    The maternal autopsy
    Toxicological and biochemical analyses
    Microbiology of the autopsy
    Investigating possible anaphylactic deaths
    Perioperative and postoperative deaths
    The radiological autopsy
    The decomposed body and the unascertained autopsy
    Reconstruction of the body
    Autopsies and clinical audit
    Reports, documentation and statements

    Biography

    Julian L Burton MBChB (Hons) MEd FHEA
    Senior Teaching Fellow and Senate Award Fellow (Learning and Teaching) at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield
    and
    Coronial Pathologist at the Medico-Legal Centre, Sheffield

    Guy Rutty MD MBBS FRCPath DipRCPath(Forensic) FFFLM FFSSoc
    Professor of Forensic Pathology, Chief Forensic Pathologist, East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit, University of Leicester
    and
    Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist, Leicester, UK

    "The Hospital Autopsy is greatly needed at a time when many junior pathologists are struggling to gain adequate autopsy teaching and experience...it is an essential text for reference in the post-mortem suite, as well as being useful for the examination"
    Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists

    "Nine years on from the last edition there has been considerable expansion... Significant improvements include the use of colour for photographs, diagrams, sub-headings and summary boxes... It is... essential reading for the dwindling band of autopsy pathologists."
    ACP News