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Q1 How many patients pass through your morgue each year?
Q2 Approximately what proportion of these have a cardiac implantable device in situ? (PPM, ICD, ILR)
Q3 Does the hospital morgue also take deaths from the community, or is it for inpatients only?
Q4 Is there a cardiac physiology department on site at your hospital?
Q5 If a patient has a cardiac device in situ, is it routine practice for a device check to be undertaken after death?
Q6a If yes, is the information regarding rhythm/therapies at the time of death routinely added to the patient’s notes/hospital record?
Q6b If yes, is the information regarding rhythm/therapies at the time of death routinely passed on to the clinical team?
Q7 If no and this is not routine practice, are there ever exceptions to this, i.e., occasions where a post-death device check is requested by the clinical team?
Q8 If yes, please elaborate (for example, how often or under what circumstances this occurs).

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