Lecture 10 - Cadaver Handling Flashcards
List the textbooks required for gross anatomy, and Dr. Whitney’s thoughts on those books
- Gray’s Anatomy for Students: great resource, read conceptual overview and surface anatomy sections and go through clinical cases
- Grant’s Dissector: no need to look at it because we’re not doing dissections
- Grant’s Atlas: diagrams and pictures of everything and is helpful in the lab with the cadavers (will be available in the lab)
List the resources given to students, and describe when you are recommended to use them
- Anatomy videos: watch them before associated lab lectures (1 for each lab)
- Guided electronic dissector: look at pictures once before going to lab lectures
- Primal pictures: cadaver pictures (least helpful resource)
- Net anatomy: cadaver pictures AND diagnostic imaging - should use this close to the exam when I know my shit and want to test myself
Explain how to study for gross anatomy: overall strategies?
- Do not fall behind
- Read appropriate sections from book before class and watch videos
- Attend Suarez’s lectures
- Actively participate in labs in LA6 with REEF polling and yell out
List of the qualification a body must have in order to be donated to Georgetown School of Medicine
- Bodies cannot be embalmed
- Bodies cannot be badly damaged by accidents
- Bodies cannot be used for organ donation
- Body donor cannot be known to be carrier of infectious disease
List and explain the rules of the cadaver lab (12 of them)
- Each lab one of us from our group will teach the lab (quiz, handouts, etc.)
- Respect body
- Wear clothes I do not care about and change prior to lab (south corridor)
- Note whether you have a tan or blue tarp and treat body accordingly
- Check buckets periodically and empty them so that there is no overflow (if there is, clean it up) in sink with garbage disposal which should be run while emptying bucket
- Drain excess fluid in body bags with shop vac (then dispose of fluid with same rule as for buckets)
- Do not wear open toe shoes
- Not eating or drinking
- Wear gloves (double bag)
- Do not leave instruments outside of instrument box
- Dispose of sharps in sharp box
- Wear goggles if sawing through bones
Describe the process by which we will be going through the online guided dissector
We will go through the step by step dissection and will be called to identify structures. There will also be REEF polling (first easy identification questions and then old exam questions)
Focus on identification objectives, not dissection ones (we are not tested on those)
Apply your knowledge of anatomy vernacular to go through the list of dissection cuts to be made when removing the skin from the anterior thorax
Make following incisions:
- From jugular notch, sagittaly, to xiphoid process
- From jugular notch, along clavicle, to acromion
- From sternal angle, laterally to axilla
- From body of sternum, laterally, circumscribe nipple, to edge of table
- From xiphoid process, laterally to edge of table
- From xiphoid process, obliquely, along costal margin
Do it twice (once on skin and once on superficial fascia) to access thorax
Describe what the dimpling on the undersurface of the skin means
Verifies that the skin reflection is at the appropriate plane
Detail how to properly close up a cadaver
- Put cheese clothes around any organs and spray with wetting solution
- Put cheese clothes around any muscles and spray GENEROUSLY with wetting solution
- Cover with skin
- Close body bag and cover with tarp
Explain how to study for gross anatomy: specific strategies for lectures?
- Read the conceptual overview in book
- Review syllabus
- Attend lectures
- Use book as needed for reference
Does Church law impede body donation?
NOPE
What happens to the cadavers after dissection?
- Bodies are cremated and interred at Mount Olivet cemetery
2. Memorial services conducted after burial
What happens to the cadavers after dissection?
- Bodies are cremated and interred at Mount Olivet cemetery
2. Memorial services conducted after burial
What does the blue/tan tarps on the cadavers mean?
- Tan (most): family wants to receive all of the body remains so put all tissue that removed from the cadaver into the plastic container and confirm that container number matches cadaver table number.
- Blue: no need to keep cadaver parts so through cadaver wastes away in black round bins
What does the blue/tan tarps on the cadavers mean?
- Tan (most): family wants to receive all of the body remains so put all tissue that removed from the cadaver into the plastic container and confirm that container number matches cadaver table number.
- Blue: no need to keep cadaver parts so through cadaver wastes away in black round bins
