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Cardiac Arrest

A mechanism that can be produced by atherosclerotic disease, arrhythmia, or ischemia, often lacking distinctive postmortem features.

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What does forensic pathology say about differentiating asphyxia, cardiopulmonary arrest, and drug intoxication as causes of death?

treats asphyxia, cardiopulmonary (cardiac) arrest, and drug intoxication as overlapping but distinct problems that must be disentangled by integrating scene information, autopsy findings, histology an...