Week One Assignment – Questions

Q1. Cause of death (5 points)
a.    What is immediate cause of death?
b.    What is Delayed (Underlying or proximate) cause of death?
c.    Provide examples of both immediate & delayed cause of death?

Q2. Case study (5 points)
A person hit by a car and suffered fractures in both lower limb bones; then died in the hospital after 2 weeks of pulmonary embolism. 
a.    What is the cause of death? 
b.    What is the manner of death?