Autopsy and Laboratory Diagnosis Flashcards
Personal protective equipment to ensure biosafety when doing a necropsy
- Gloves
- Coveralls
- Boots
Why do a postmortem?
- Confirm/reject clinical diagnosis
- Dealing with unknown disease = identify what disease processes are occuring to explain cause of death or clinical findings, collect tisues to conduct tests which will establish a cause (information may be needed to prevent or treat disease in other animals)
- Testing for agents without documenting pathological process is of limited use
When are you going to do a postmortem?
-As soon as possible
When are you going to examine other animals?
-Before doing a necropsy on the dead animals
Which animals will you do a postmortem on?
Dead ones
Where will you do the postmortem?
- Concrete
- Dirt area in sun
- Straw bed
What will you do with the carcasses?
- Burial
- Renderer
- Transport to a disposal site
- Incineration
- Composting
Areas to AVOID while doing a postmortem
- Areas accessible to animals
- Areas which may contain food
- High traffic areas
- Areas difficult to disinfect
GREAT postmortem sites
- Concrete
- Dirt area in sun
- Straw bed
Disposal options
- Burial
- Renderer
- Transport to a disposal site
- Incineration
- Composting
Biosecurity and biosafety
-All specimens should be handled and treated as though they are a potential zoonosis threat
Routes of exposure to pathogens during a postmortem
- Oral
- Splash
- Aerosolization
- Percutaneous (sharps injury)
What is the #1 route of exposure of pathogens during a postmortem?
Oral
BSL for routine necropsy of a domestic animal
2
BSL for animal suspected to have rabies
3
