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How can medical examiner determine respiratory failure without an autopsy.?
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Medical examiner: Gets involved after a person has died. There are ways to determine respiratory failure through clinical examination and blood tests during life of the patient but the only tool available to the medical examiner is autopsy.
Answered 6/24/2013
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