Author: Yujiemi Chisholm

These documents pertain to responding to various calls, documenting decedent history, handling known decedents, hospital cases, and investigations and address standards for IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a medium-sized office with autopsies performed at other facilities.

These documents pertain to communication with law enforcement, response expectations, transitioning case responsibility, identification methods, pronouncement of death, handling unidentified remains and cases involving non-US citizen decedents, and address standards for IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a small office that performs autopsies in-house.

These documents pertain to notifying next of kin, shift changes, decedent identification, child fatalities, fetal deaths, hospital/hospice deaths, unidentified cases, and undetermined cases and address standards for IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a medium-sized office that performs autopsies in-house and at other facilities.

These documents pertain to deferred cases, positive identification, scene investigation, search warrants, infant death, time of death, notification to OSHA, and witness interviewing and address standards for IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a small office that performs autopsies at other facilities.

These documents pertain to disease reporting, reporting neonatal deaths, deaths after medical intervention, entomology procedures, photography, communication with law enforcement, and next of kin notification and address standards for IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a small office that performs autopsies at other facilities. 

These documents pertain to advanced decomposition, case updates, deaths involving children, cold cases, deaths in custody, and declaration of death and address standards for IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a small office that performs autopsies at other facilities.