[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 28, Volume 2]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 28CFR549.63]



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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

 

           CHAPTER V--BUREAU OF PRISONS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

PART 549_MEDICAL SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

                    Subpart E_Hunger Strikes, Inmate

 

Sec. 549.63  Initial medical evaluation and management.



    (a) Medical staff shall ordinarily perform the following procedures 

upon initial referral of an inmate on a hunger strike:

    (1) Measure and record height and weight;

    (2) Take and record vital signs;

    (3) Urinalysis;

    (4) Psychological and/or psychiatric evaluation;

    (5) General medical evaluation;

    (6) Radiographs as clinically indicated;

    (7) Laboratory studies as clinically indicated.

    (b) Medical staff shall take and record weight and vital signs at 

least once every 24 hours while the inmate is on a hunger strike. Other 

procedures identified in paragraph (a) of this section shall be repeated 

as medically indicated.

    (c) When valid medical reasons exist, the physician may modify, 

discontinue, or expand any of the medical procedures described in 

paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section.

    (d) When medical staff consider it medically mandatory, an inmate on 

a hunger strike will be transferred to a Medical Referral Center or to 

another Bureau institution considered medically appropriate, or to a 

community hospital.



[45 FR 23365, Apr. 4, 1980, as amended at 59 FR 31883, June 20, 1994]