Q79
Single choice
A 71-year-old woman suffers severe head injuries in a mugging and is hospitalized in a comatose state. While in the hospital, she develops severe pneumonia and on day 11 goes into cardiac arrest and cannot be resuscitated. At autopsy she is found to have advanced coronary atherosclerosis and a pulmonary embolism judged to have occurred within the past 23 days.
The coroner should list which of the following on the death certificate as the underlying (or proximate) cause of death?