SAQ 1825 – Breaking bad news and coronial reporting after fatal trauma

A 24-year-old woman has just died in your ED despite active resuscitation after massive head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash. Police are present, but her family members do not yet know what has happened.

List, in point form, the major steps you will take to break this bad news to her family.

(Marked out of 6.0)

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List four circumstances in which a death must be reported to the coroner.

(Marked out of 4.0)

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