title: When information can save lives: the duty to warn relatives about sudden cardiac death and environmental risks.
abstract: In certain cases of sudden death, forensic experts may discover during an investigation or autopsy that family members of the deceased are also at risk of harm-from genetic disease, for instance. But do they have a duty to warn them? Looking at similar duties of physicians and researchers to warn third parties of risk suggests they do.
authors.affiliation: University of Geneva.
authors.forename: Bernice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Elger
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Michaud
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mangin
mesh_terms: D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D017007:Duty to Warn / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005190:Family; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors