CAP Member Dr. Jody Hooper Explains the Importance of Rapid Autopsies

Only 10 Hospitals Conduct the ProceduresBy Bob Tedeschi STATNews.com Medical teams have long rushed to save the living. Now, increasingly, they’re rushing to attend to the dead. A small but fast-growing number of hospitals are embracing procedures known as “rapid autopsies” — conducted in the hours immediately after a patient’s death. The idea is to obtain tissues from tumors before they start significantly degrading. Using genetic analysis technology, doctors can then determine precisely how cancer cells survived every attempt to kill them. But the procedures are forcing