{"id":10457,"date":"2016-11-25T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=10457"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:11:43","slug":"autopsy-pathology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/clinical-services\/deptpgrmcs\/departments\/anatomical-pathology\/autopsy-pathology\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy Pathology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/autopsy.jpg\" alt=\"Autopsy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Autopsy services include post-mortem examination on hospitalized adult patients performed with the consent of next-of-kin or legal guardian, to clarify the cause of death for the benefit of family and attending physicians.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Ontario Regional Forensic Pathology Unit opened in 1994, with a mandate to perform adult medicolegal autopsies under a coroner&#8217;s warrant. As well as providing information for the next-of- kin, forensic autopsies allow the Coroner&#8217;s Office to make important decisions as to the manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with results of other forensic scientific investigations such as toxicology, DNA profiling and firearms\/ballistics examinations, the autopsy plays a vital role in the judicial process, whether it be an inquest to address public safety concerns or a criminal trial to determine guilt or innocence in deaths not due to natural causes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autopsy services include post-mortem examination on hospitalized adult patients performed with the consent of next-of-kin or legal guardian, to clarify the cause of death for the benefit of family and attending physicians. The Eastern Ontario Regional Forensic Pathology Unit opened in 1994, with a mandate to perform adult medicolegal autopsies under a coroner&#8217;s warrant. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":10426,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10457","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10457\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}