Value of CT-based Autopsy Compared With Conventional Autopsy in ICU Patients

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autopsy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01040520

UKE KIM 2010.1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare findings generated by CT-based autopsy (Virtopsy) with conventional autopsy and clinical diagnoses. Therefore all patients dying while receiving treatment in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine will be undergo virtopsy and, if relatives give informed consent conventional autopsy.

Full description

The aim of the study is to compare findings generated by computertomography-based autopsy (Virtopsy) with conventional autopsy and clinical diagnoses. Therefore all patients dying while receiving treatment in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine will be undergo virtopsy and, if relatives give informed consent conventional autopsy.

Enrollment: 284 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients dying in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine while receiving treatment during the study period

Exclusion criteria

• None