New Jersey S1737 allows EMTs, paramedics, and county medical examiner's office investigators to determine and pronounce death in certain situations.
New Jersey S1737 permits emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and investigators for the county medical examiner's office to determine and pronounce death under specific circumstances. This includes cases where the death occurs at home, at the scene of an accident, homicide, fire, flood, or other disaster, and no physician or registered professional nurse is present. The bill also requires these professionals to attest to their pronouncement by signing the death certificate or reporting it to the attending physician or county medical examiner.
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