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From: Angela
Category: Medical school
Date: 29 May 2005
Time: 21:47:56 -0400
Remote Name: 206.148.164.234
If you were to take a blood test from a young person after they were dead (cpr still ongoing), would the blood tests be different than if they were taken before the death of that person? What I need to know is this: If the results showed possible congestive heart failure, or kidney failure, or a very low blood sugar... and the blood was drawn after the person was dead (time of death not called yet and cpr still going for a good while after blood was drawn) -- would the results be something we could assume to be correct or would the number be off because of the body shutting down? Could we use the test results to help determin the cause of death? And how far out of wack would the results be if they would show different if taken before death? (If anyone can help with this - I have the results here and can give you exact numbers and tests run etc.) My baby brother died at the age of 22 almost a year ago now. The ME refused to do a autopsy to find out the cause of death, and although I tricked the late night blood lab at the hospital into faxing me his results... everyone proclaims that these tests are non existant and never happened. Thanks SO much, Angela Guitarsandpics@hotmail.com