Types of deaths to the medical examiner-coroner

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Assignment:

1. Identify why Hendrick hospital is required to report these types of deaths to the medical examiner/coroner.

2. Determine if medical examiners and coroners at Hendrick Hospital have the right to receive patient information needed to investigate a case. Why or why not?

3. Evaluate additional required reporting that must be done by Danny Thomas Senior Living Facility as well as the hospital concerning the patient's death

4. Identify whose responsibility it is to notify the hospital-when a medical device in use may cause harm to patients.

5. Identify the hospital's responsibility for reporting the death to the FDA if the patient's death was attributed to the cardiac implant defibrillator.

6. Determine from what you read in the chapter how this patient's death should be reported if the cardiac implant defibrillator is the cause?

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