ABMDI Certification Exam Questions and
Answers with Detailed Rationales | Verified |
Graded A+
• Authorization to conduct a medicolegal autopsy must be provided by: -
✓✓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. -✓✓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: -✓✓As soon as possible following
the autopsy.
• In general, which of the following are NOT normally considered for
organ/tissue procurement purposes? -✓✓Reproductive organs
• Authorization for organ/tissue procurement is considered valid if: -
✓✓The decedents legal next of kin or representitive has given consent.
• Brain death: -✓✓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: -✓✓An infant born without a brain.
• Jurisdiction: -✓✓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: -✓✓The best approach is a "team"
approach to performing the work.
• In constructing a narrative report, the main idea is to relate: -✓✓An
overall and concise view of what happened.
• Choose one of the most important important communication skills for
gathering information at the scene: -✓✓Listen and actively study
witnesses.
• The pathologist must be altered to religious requests from the family: -
✓✓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?" -
✓✓Request for information.
• Common law marriage: -✓✓Marriage that is recognized because the
couple have been cohabiting for a determined length of time, but there
has been no legal ceremony.
• Disinterment -✓✓The opening of a grave and removal of the body for
the purpose of reexamination or removal to another site.
• Euphemism -✓✓A mild or inoffensive term or phrase that is
substituted for another, more explicit term.
• Objective report: -✓✓A report made in an independent and unbiased
manner, without regard for personal attitudes or thoughts.
Answers with Detailed Rationales | Verified |
Graded A+
• Authorization to conduct a medicolegal autopsy must be provided by: -
✓✓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. -✓✓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: -✓✓As soon as possible following
the autopsy.
• In general, which of the following are NOT normally considered for
organ/tissue procurement purposes? -✓✓Reproductive organs
• Authorization for organ/tissue procurement is considered valid if: -
✓✓The decedents legal next of kin or representitive has given consent.
• Brain death: -✓✓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: -✓✓An infant born without a brain.
• Jurisdiction: -✓✓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: -✓✓The best approach is a "team"
approach to performing the work.
• In constructing a narrative report, the main idea is to relate: -✓✓An
overall and concise view of what happened.
• Choose one of the most important important communication skills for
gathering information at the scene: -✓✓Listen and actively study
witnesses.
• The pathologist must be altered to religious requests from the family: -
✓✓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?" -
✓✓Request for information.
• Common law marriage: -✓✓Marriage that is recognized because the
couple have been cohabiting for a determined length of time, but there
has been no legal ceremony.
• Disinterment -✓✓The opening of a grave and removal of the body for
the purpose of reexamination or removal to another site.
• Euphemism -✓✓A mild or inoffensive term or phrase that is
substituted for another, more explicit term.
• Objective report: -✓✓A report made in an independent and unbiased
manner, without regard for personal attitudes or thoughts.
