CAUSE OF DEATH

Proximate COD The most important, immediate, direct or actual cause, or last event or act that occurred before the chain of events leading to death Immediate COD The concluding or final event that actually produces death; other CODs include natural causes, HI ris! factors, in"ury and poisoning, dementia, periprocedural deaths associated #ith medical treatment or diagnostic$therapeutic procedures and devices, perinatal death %C&P Today '($)*, p*+, .c/ra#0Hill Concise Dictionary of .odern .edicine- 1 (22( by The .c/ra#0Hill Companies, Inc-