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■ Firefighter Autopsy Protocol
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State/
Territory
Type of System Title Deaths Investigated Contact Comment
Iowa
State Medical
Examiner
State Medical
Examiner,
County Medical
Examiner
• Violent, including homicidal,
suicidal, or accidental.
• Caused by thermal, chemical,
electrical, or radiation injury.
• Caused by criminal abortion
including those self-induced, or
by rape, carnal knowledge, or
crimes against nature.
• Related to disease thought to
be virulent or contagious, which
might constitute a public hazard.
• Occurring unexpectedly or from
unexplained causes.
• Of a person confined in jail,
prison, or correctional institution.
• Where a physician was not in
attendance at any time at least
36 hours preceding death, with
the exception of pre-diagnosed
terminal or bedfast cases for
which the time period shall be
extended to 20 days.
• Where the body is not claimed
by relatives or friends.
• Where the identity of the
deceased is unknown.
• Of a child under the age of 2
years when sudden infant death
syndrome is suspected or cause
of death is unknown.
Kansas District Coroner District Coroner • Death is suspected to have been
the result of violence caused by
unlawful means, or by suicide.
• By casualty.
• Suddenly when the decedent
was in apparent health.
• When the decedent was not
regularly attended by a licensed
physician.
Kansas
(cont’d)
• In any suspicious or unusual
manner, or when in police
custody, or when in a jail or
correctional institution.
• When the determination of the
cause of death is held to be in
the public interest.
Julia C. Goodin, M.D.,
State Medical Examiner
Office of the Iowa State
Medical Examiner,
Iowa Department of
Public Health Lucas State
Office Building,
5th Floor, 321 East 12th
Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
(515) 281-6726
Email: jgoodin@raccoon.
com
Alan Hancock, M.D.
President
Kansas Coroners
Association
9201 Parallel Parkway
Kansas City, KS
66112-1598
(913) 299-1474
Fax: (913) 299-4931