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Official pronouncement of death can: correct answers Be defermined by state statute and local
customs.
Authorization to conduct a medicolegal autopsy must be provided by: correct answers The
coroner or medical examiner when jurisdiction is established.
A previously healthy 4 m.o. Infant is found unresponsive in his crib at home. He is rushed to the
hospital, where he is maintained on the respirator for 26 hrs before being declared dead. No
external trauma or disease is noted by the treating physician. correct answers The coroner has
jurisdiction bcuz of the unexplained death of an infant.
Your office is investigating a suspected SIDS death. You should notify your statewide SIDS
program within: correct answers As soon as possible following the autopsy.
In general, which of the following are NOT normally considered for organ/tissue procurement
purposes? correct answers Reproductive organs
Authorization for organ/tissue procurement is considered valid if: correct answers The decedents
legal next of kin or representitive has given consent.
Brain death: correct answers Final cessation of activity in the central nervous system, as
indicated by a flat electroencephalogram (EEG) or absence of cerebral blood flow for a
predetermined period of time.
Anencephalic: correct answers An infant born without a brain.
Jurisdiction: correct answers The power or authority a court or office has over individuals or
trauma.
, The death investigator and a police investigator arrive at the scene within minutes of each other:
correct answers The best approach is a "team" approach to performing the work.
In constructing a narrative report, the main idea is to relate: correct answers An overall and
concise view of what happened.
Choose one of the most important important communication skills for gathering information at
the scene: correct answers Listen and actively study witnesses.
The pathologist must be altered to religious requests from the family: correct answers Before the
autopsy is performed.
When communicating with the pathologist, a good investigator distinguishes between a request
for information and a request for an opinion. Which type is this, " what time was the death
pronounced?" correct answers Request for information.
Common law marriage: correct answers Marriage that is recognized because the couple have
been cohabiting for a determined length of time, but there has been no legal ceremony.
Disinterment correct answers The opening of a grave and removal of the body for the purpose of
reexamination or removal to another site.
Euphemism correct answers A mild or inoffensive term or phrase that is substituted for another,
more explicit term.
Objective report: correct answers A report made in an independent and unbiased manner, without
regard for personal attitudes or thoughts.
Retort: correct answers A vessel or chamber in which substances are decomposed by heat.
Official pronouncement of death can: correct answers Be defermined by state statute and local
customs.
Authorization to conduct a medicolegal autopsy must be provided by: correct answers The
coroner or medical examiner when jurisdiction is established.
A previously healthy 4 m.o. Infant is found unresponsive in his crib at home. He is rushed to the
hospital, where he is maintained on the respirator for 26 hrs before being declared dead. No
external trauma or disease is noted by the treating physician. correct answers The coroner has
jurisdiction bcuz of the unexplained death of an infant.
Your office is investigating a suspected SIDS death. You should notify your statewide SIDS
program within: correct answers As soon as possible following the autopsy.
In general, which of the following are NOT normally considered for organ/tissue procurement
purposes? correct answers Reproductive organs
Authorization for organ/tissue procurement is considered valid if: correct answers The decedents
legal next of kin or representitive has given consent.
Brain death: correct answers Final cessation of activity in the central nervous system, as
indicated by a flat electroencephalogram (EEG) or absence of cerebral blood flow for a
predetermined period of time.
Anencephalic: correct answers An infant born without a brain.
Jurisdiction: correct answers The power or authority a court or office has over individuals or
trauma.
, The death investigator and a police investigator arrive at the scene within minutes of each other:
correct answers The best approach is a "team" approach to performing the work.
In constructing a narrative report, the main idea is to relate: correct answers An overall and
concise view of what happened.
Choose one of the most important important communication skills for gathering information at
the scene: correct answers Listen and actively study witnesses.
The pathologist must be altered to religious requests from the family: correct answers Before the
autopsy is performed.
When communicating with the pathologist, a good investigator distinguishes between a request
for information and a request for an opinion. Which type is this, " what time was the death
pronounced?" correct answers Request for information.
Common law marriage: correct answers Marriage that is recognized because the couple have
been cohabiting for a determined length of time, but there has been no legal ceremony.
Disinterment correct answers The opening of a grave and removal of the body for the purpose of
reexamination or removal to another site.
Euphemism correct answers A mild or inoffensive term or phrase that is substituted for another,
more explicit term.
Objective report: correct answers A report made in an independent and unbiased manner, without
regard for personal attitudes or thoughts.
Retort: correct answers A vessel or chamber in which substances are decomposed by heat.
