§ 11.591

11-591. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. ' Alternate medical examiner' means a physician who has training and competence in the principles of death investigation and who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. 2. ' Autopsy' means a surgical procedure in which internal organs are exposed, removed or examined for the identification of trauma or natural disease. 3. ' Death investigation' means the investigation directed by a county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner into the circumstances surrounding a death occurring as prescribed in section 11-593. 4. ' External examination' means an external inspection of a body. 5. ' Forensic pathologist' means a physician who has successfully completed a pathology residency and a forensic fellowship or has extensive experience performing forensic autopsies in an official capacity. 6. ' Investigative information' means information received by a medical examiner or alternate medical examiner from law enforcement, witnesses, family members, health care personnel or medical death investigators concerning cause and manner of death. 7.

ived by a medical examiner or alternate medical examiner from law enforcement, witnesses, family members, health care personnel or medical death investigators concerning cause and manner of death. 7. ' Medical death investigator' means a person trained in the principles of death investigation. 8. ' Medical examiner' means a forensic pathologist who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. 9. ' Nurse practitioner' means a person licensed and certified pursuant to title 32, chapter 15. 10. ' Organ procurement organization' means an organization located within this state that meets the requirements of 42 United States Code section 273. 11. ' Pathologist assistant' means a person certified as a pathologist assistant who has graduated from a pathologist assistant training program approved by a national accrediting agency for clinical laboratory sciences. 12. ' Physician' means a person licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17. 13. ' Tissue bank' means a person that is licensed or regulated under federal or state law or accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting organization to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution

s licensed or regulated under federal or state law or accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting organization to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution of tissue.