Hi Tim,
In the hospitals I have worked, we used the PAD simply to communicate gross
pathologic diagnoses, so we would issue a gross description of the brain (like
the brain weight compared to normal, edema, atrophy, herniation, hemorrhage,
etc), "pending microscopic examination", and then
How do you handle counting days to preliminary autopsy dx (PAD) when doing
cases in which the brain autopsy results are the main component of disease? If
we accession at the time of autopsy and then let the brain fix for several days
before cutting in, then the PAD is many days past the 3-day
