TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - The role of autopsy and post-mortem investigations in falling traumas in the hospital environment
JO  - Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)
A1  - Sacco, Matteo Antonio
A1  - Cordasco, Fabrizio
A1  - Abenavoli, Ludovico
A1  - Lavano, Angelo
A1  - Gallotta, Giovanni
A1  - Garofalo, Eugenio
A1  - Bruni, Andrea
A1  - Scalise, Carmen
A1  - Gualtieri, Saverio
A1  - Tarallo, Alessandro Pasquale
A1  - Aquila, Valerio Riccardo
A1  - Ricci, Pietrantonio
A1  - Aquila, Isabella
SP  - e3168
EP  - e3168
VL  - 12
IS  - 12
N2  - Falls in a hospital setting are a global public health problem. Despite the production of sensors and various preventive tools to reduce the risk, falls remain a dangerous event with a significant impact on the morbidity and mortality of patients. Despite numerous prevention strategies, falling in the hospital are not always investigated and the autopsy is not always performed in these cases, so it is often not known whether the death is related to the fall or to other causes, inevitably affecting the assessment of any profiles of medical liability for health personnel or for the hospital in the accident. We describe three cases of falls that occurred in different hospitals, in which the autopsy allowed to diagnose with certainty the extent of the trauma and to reconstruct its dynamics. Along with the circumstantial and documentary analyses, deficiencies both in the trauma diagnostics and in the application of the safety measures on the patients were showed. Together with the description of our cases, we propose the post-mortem investigations of these events, both for judicial and risk management purposes.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2075-4418
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12123168
ID  - ref1
ER  -