Authors
Sabrina Zohoury, MD
Mount Carmel Health System
Columbus, Ohio
Prentiss Jones, PhD
Joseph A. Prahlow, MD
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists
Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Laboratory Directors and Educators
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
· describe the mechanism of action ascribed to most opioid-related deaths;
· discuss the trends in types of drugs responsible for most drug-related deaths within the United States;
· describe the gross features evident at autopsy in opioid-related deaths;
· discuss the major gross and microscopic features associated with deaths related to acute and chronic asthmatic bronchitis; and
· explain how a death can be related to both the toxic effects of fentanyl and acute asthmatic bronchitis.