| | | A. Death is suspected of having been caused by any type of | | physical injury, including poisoning, regardless of whether | | the suspected manner of death is homicide, suicide or | accident;.__This circumstance must be reported irrespective | | of whether the deceased had been attended by a physician, | | was a patient in a hospital, survived for a considerable | | time following the physical injury or died from terminal | | natural causes consequent to and following the physical | | injury; |
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| | | B. Suddenly when the person is in apparent good health and | | has no specific natural disease sufficient to explain death; |
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| | | C. During diagnostic or therapeutic procedures under | | circumstances indicating gross negligence or when clearly | | due to trauma or poisoning unrelated to the ordinary risks | | of those procedures; |
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| | | D. Death when the person is in custody pursuant to an | | arrest, confined in a state correctional facility, county | | institution, facility or local lockup, unless clearly | | certifiable by an attending physician as due to specific | | natural causes; |
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| | | E. Death while the person is a patient or resident of a | | facility of the Department of Behavioral and Developmental | | Services or residential care facility maintained or licensed | | by the Department of Human Services, unless clearly | | certifiable by an attending physician as due to specific | | natural causes; |
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| | | F. Death suspected of being due to a threat to the public | | health when the authority of the medical examiner is needed | | to adequately study the case for the protection of the | | public health; |
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| | | G. Death suspected of not having been certified, including, | | but not limited to, bodies brought into the State and any | | buried remains uncovered other than by legal exhumation; |
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| | | H. Deaths suspected of being medical examiner cases which | | may have been improperly certified or inadequately examined, | | including, but not limited to, bodies brought into the State | | under those circumstances; |
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| | | I. Sudden infant death syndrome deaths and all other deaths | | of children under the age of 18 unless clearly certifiable | | by an attending physician as due to specific natural causes | | unrelated to abuse or neglect; |
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