title: [Mortui vivos docent : The dead teach the living].
abstract: There are considerable similarities and intersections between forensic medicine and emergency medicine. This applies especially to frustraneously resuscitated patients or other lethal clinical courses of traumatized patients who are subject to latter forensic autopsy. Cooperation between departments of emergency and forensic medicine not only has emergency medical training potential, but also the possibility of retrospective evaluation of medical emergency measures - both in individual cases and with regard to epidemiological aspects. In particular, the widespread registration of autopsied pre-hospital trauma deaths that occurred despite on-scene resuscitation attempts is useful. The pre-hospital situation represents a hotspot, but also a blind spot in the overall trauma mortality. In recent clinical registers, preclinical deaths go mostly unrecorded, despite the undisputed benefits of clinical registers.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Turmstr. 21, Haus N, 10559, Berlin, Deutschland. claas.buschmann@charite.de.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Buschmann
authors.affiliation: UniversitätsCentrum für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, AG Polytrauma, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Deutschland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kleber
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Turmstr. 21, Haus N, 10559, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsokos
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie, Asklepios Klinikum Harburg, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kerner
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Püschel
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Deutschland.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Brandenburgisches Landesinstitut für Rechtsmedizin, Potsdam, Deutschland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Anästhesie, Intensiv- und Rettungsmedizin, Zentrum für Schmerztherapie, Berufsgenossenschaftliches Unfallkrankenhaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stuhr
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D002423:Cause of Death; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D012151:Resuscitation; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Autopsy; Emergency medicine; Forensic medicine; Resuscitation; Trauma mortality