Embalming: Professional Expectations Flashcards
Embalming professional expectations
- Orientation and introduction
- Death
- Pre-embalming changes
- Technical orientation of embalming
- Selection of arteries
- Injection
- Type of embalming chemicals
- Dilution, distribution, diffusion
- Drainage
- Cavity treatment
- Autopsies, necropsies or postmortem examinations
- Postmortem conditions and their embalming treatment
Orientation and introduction professional expectations
- General
- Professional and ethical conduct
- Sanitation
General orientation and introduction professional expectations
- Definition of embalming
- Summary of embalming process
- Need for embalming
- Classifications of embalming
- History of embalming
Professional and ethical conduct embalming professional expectations
- Moral consideration
* Legal consideration
Sanitation embalming professional expectations
Personal and environmental hygiene
Death professional expectations
- Definition
- Terms associated
- Types of death
- Tests for death
Pre-embalming changes professional expectations
- Antemortem (agonal changes)
* Postmortem
Technical orientation of embalming professional expectations
- Equipment, instruments and accessory materials
- Pre-embalming analysis
- Position of body (prior to embalming)
- Posing the features
- Eye enucleation restoration
Selection of arteries professional expectations
- Definitions
- Factors governing selection of artery to be injected on any given body
- Proper technique for raising vessels
- Types of sutures for closing incisions
- Other methods of closing incision
Selection of arteries definitions professional expectations
- Linear guide
- Anatomical guide
- Anatomical limits
Injection professional expectations
- Methods of creating fluid pressure
- Pressure discussion
- Injection pressure
- Rate of flow
Injection pressure professional expectations
- Factors affecting
- Recommended pressure
- Procedure
Type of embalming chemicals professional expectations
- Arterial
- Cavity
- Supplemental fluids
- Accessory chemicals
- Safety in handling embalming chemicals
Arterial embalming chemicals professional expectations
- Function
- Purpose
- Classification
- Components
- Effects of body tissues and tissue fluids and components
- Effects on body tissues and tissue fluids and protein
Cavity embalming chemicals professional expectations
- Purpose
* Composition