NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Mechanism of death describes the specific change in the body that brought about the cessation of life. For example, if the cause of death is shooting, the mechanism of death might be loss of blood, exsanguination, or it might be the cessation of brain function.

Detailed explanation-2: -The classifications are natural, accident, suicide, homicide, undetermined, and pending. Only medical examiner’s and coroners may use all of the manners of death.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cause of death is the disease or injury that produces the physiological disruption inside the body resulting in death, for example, a gunshot wound to the chest. The mechanism of death is the physiological derangement that results in the death.

Detailed explanation-4: -Common fatal mechanisms of death include congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, septicemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, hepatic failure and anoxic encephalopathy.