Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 060 - STATE MEDICAL BOARD › Rule 060.00.10-005 - Regulation 17 - Governing Continuing Medical Education

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
REGULATION 34
REQUIREMENTS OF LICENSED
		  PHYSICIANS IN COMPLETING DEATH CERTIFICATES
ACA §
								20-18-601
			 requires physicians in the State of Arkansas to comply with the requirements
			 when completing death certificates. ACA §
								17-95-409(a)(2)(P)
			 provides that the Arkansas State Medical Board may revoke or suspend a license
			 of physicians, or impose other sanctions as provided by law, if a licensed
			 physician violates a rule of the Board.
A. A licensed Physician who has been in
		  charge of a patient's care for the illness or condition that resulted in the
		  death of the patient shall complete, sign and return to the funeral director
		  the medical certification on the death certificate within two (2) business days
		  after receipt of the death certificate, except when an inquiry is required by
		  law pursuant to ACA §
								12-12-315
		  as set forth herein:
(1) The county coroner,
		  prosecuting attorney, and either the county sheriff or the chief of police of
		  the municipality in which the death of a human being occurs shall be promptly
		  notified by any physician, law enforcement officer, undertaker or embalmer,
		  jailer, or coroner or by any other person present with knowledge of the death
		  if:
(A) The death appears to be caused by
		  violence or appears to be the result of a homicide or a suicide or to be
		  accidental;
(B) The death appears
		  to be the result of the presence of drugs or poisons in the body;
(C) The death appears to be the result of a
		  motor vehicle accident, or the body was found in or near a roadway or
		  railroad;
(D) The death appears to
		  be the result of a motor vehicle accident and there is no obvious trauma to the
		  body;
(E) The death occurs while
		  the person is in a state mental institution or hospital and there is no
		  previous medical history to explain the death, or while the person is in police
		  custody or jail other than a jail operated by the Department of
		  Correction;
(F) The death appears
		  to be the result of a fire or an explosion;
(G) The death of a minor child appears to
		  indicate child abuse prior to death;
(H) Human skeletal remains are recovered or
		  an unidentified deceased person is discovered;
(I) Postmortem decomposition exists to the
		  extent that an external examination of the corpse cannot rule out injury, or in
		  which the circumstances of death cannot rule out the commission of a
		  crime;
(J) The death appears to be
		  the result of drowning;
(K) The
		  death is of an infant or a minor child under eighteen (18) years of
		  age;
(L) The manner of death
		  appears to be other than natural;
(M) The death is sudden and
		  unexplained;
(N) The death occurs
		  at a work site;
(O) The death is
		  due to a criminal abortion;
(P) The
		  death is of a person where a physician was not in attendance within thirty-six
		  (36) hours preceding death, or, in prediagnosed terminal or bedfast cases,
		  within thirty (30) days;
(Q) A
		  person is admitted to a hospital emergency room unconscious and is
		  unresponsive, with cardiopulmonary resuscitative measures being performed, and
		  dies within twenty-four (24) hours of admission without regaining consciousness
		  or responsiveness, unless a physician was in attendance within thirty-six (36)
		  hours preceding presentation to the hospital, or, in cases in which the
		  decedent had a prediagnosed terminal or bedfast condition, unless a physician
		  was in attendance within thirty (30) days preceding presentation to the
		  hospital;
(R) The death occurs in
		  the home; or
(S)
(i) The death poses a potential threat to
		  public health or safety.
(ii) Upon
		  receiving notice of a death that poses a potential threat to public health or
		  safety, the county coroner shall immediately notify the Department of
		  Health.