In most large U.S. cities, when someone dies who was not under the care of a physician or the death occurred suddenly, determination of death falls under the jurisdiction of
a. a medical examiner
b. a durable power of attorney
c. an appointed lawyer
d. a hospital emergency room
e. the police
Question 2Death certificates are necessary for
a. collecting life insurance
b. investigation of crime
c. disposition of property rights
d. receiving death benefits
e. all of these
Question 3A principal document on which determinations of death are recorded and which is the basis for much record keeping on deaths and collection of statistical data is
a. a living will
b. a durable power of attorney
c. an advance directive
d. a death certificate
e. a holographic will
Question 4The Harvard Committee's criteria (1968) on determination of death apply to
a. all persons who are dying
b. persons involved in automobile accidents
c. individuals in an irreversible coma
d. individuals who have suffered serious trauma
e. none of these
Question 5In 1968 an ad hoc committee of the Harvard Medical School recommended criteria for certifying death based on
a. a drop in blood pressure and pulse rate
b. the presence of an irreversible coma
c. an inability to speak and walk
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 6A 1981 presidential commission proposed a definition of death later codified in the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA). This definition requires or includes:
a. an invariant procedure for the determination of death
b. reversible loss of circulatory & respiratory functions
c. irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, excluding the brain stem
d. irreversible stoppage of the capacity for bodily integration and social interaction
e. a metaphysical change in the very substance of the being
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