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1. Medical examiner/coroner authority
The medical examiner/coroner oflce policy
at a death scene comes from
derived from state statutory authority.
2. When investigating a death, it is best to Use all available resources.
3. A good point to remember SIDS death on the
regarding re- port writing is that preliminary autopsy
report. You, as the
4. If you are called to a hospital's investigator, must
emer- gency department to begin contact
the medicole- gal death investigation
of a death caused by a firearm, the
medicolegal "scene" is
5. State systems, or states with a
"State Medical Examiner" typically
investigate
6. You work as an investigator for the
med- ical examiner's office. The
local high school sociology teacher
has invited you to give a
presentation on "medicolegal
death investigation." Which ONE
of the following topics would be
MOST appro- priate?
7. Proper distribution and use of
investiga- tive reports include all
of the following EXCEPT which
ONE?
8. A recent infant death you
investigated has been termed a
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Information is of little use unless it is properly documented
and communicated to others.
The emergency room
All deaths within their state that fall under statute.
The Role of the Medical Examiner
Providing medical information to the news me- dia.
The local SIDS Center and the local police agency.
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9. When one is writing descriptive Demographic information
infor- mation about a death
scene, the name, address, and
telephone number of the
decedent are all part of the
to be included in the case file.
Advise the PIO of oflce policy and decline
10. The public information officer (PIO)
to
for
your jurisdiction requests information re- provide information that would
not otherwise
garding an investigation for exclusive be provided to other news agencies.
re- lease. The investigator should
11. A funeral director contacts you Inquire whether the physician had marital
con- cerning the death of a local problems.
physician's spouse. Upon
discovering her dead, the
physician called the funeral
director and requested that the
body be immediately removed to
the funeral home. You should do all
of the following EXCEPT Contact the law enforcement agency in
the
12. A businesswoman from out of town
is
found dead in her motel room, the victim husband's jurisdiction. Ask them to
send a po-
of apparent homicidal violence. Personal lice oflcer(s) to the husband's
residence and
items in the room reveal she is 13. The medicolegal death
married and lives in an adjoining investigator and a
state. In order to notify her next-of- police officer arrive at
kin, the investigator should a death scene within
minutes of each
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