[.38sw]

Whether 15 years later a pathologist can tell whether someone had cardiac arrest, I don't know.

A pathologist can't tell if there had been a cardiac arrest - he can only go by the medical records for such an event. No scarring of the cardiac muscle, as would have occured in a heart attack.

[Peach]

Thanks for that information. Since Terri never had a heart attack, which is entirely different from cardiac arrest, which she DID have, now I understand about the scarring which was absent.