Pre-analytical, analytical and postanalytical considerations in glucose point-of-care testing.

Previous medico-legal autopsy diagnoses after sportrelated deaths in our personal experience in Durban included cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, Marfan’s syndrome and ruptured cerebral berry aneurysms. It is regrettable that autopsies were not performed in the above cases. Whether they should have been considered natural or unnatural may be debatable, but postmortem examinations could have served to establish the cause/s and mechanism/s of death without need for speculation, and before considerations on their preventability. Routine autopsy examinations in such instances would enlighten issues of familial/genetic study and counselling, scientific research into this area, and for ‘selective pre-competition screening’ in sport.