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Chief Medical Examiner: lab confirmation of caretaker intoxication is rare; scene reports often guide findings
Summary
Greg Vincent of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told the Connecticut Infant Mortality Review Committee that laboratory tests rarely corroborate caretaker intoxication; instead, determinations usually rely on police and first-responder observations, limiting certainty about impairment in some infant death reviews.
Greg Vincent, chief medical examiner from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, told the Connecticut Infant Mortality Review Committee that laboratory confirmation of caregiver intoxication is uncommon and that reviewers often must rely on scene reports.
"Sometimes you have cases where the person is impaired at the scene, but they don't by the time they get the testing done," Vincent said. "It's very rare…
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