TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Procedures on Recently Deceased A1 - Darger, Bryan A1 - Isaacs, Eric A2 - Reichman, Eric F. PY - 2018 T2 - Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures, 3e AB - An issue relevant to procedural skills in Emergency Medicine and other specialties is allowing learners to practice invasive procedures on the recently deceased.1,2 This often occurs immediately after the pronouncement of death and is a controversial practice. The use of the bodies of the dead for education has a long tradition in medicine. The use of the recently deceased is considered by some as a valuable resource because it improves the ability to save others in the future. Others believe consent is required from family members to preserve autonomy despite the uncomfortableness of asking for consent. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159793334 ER -