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Module 3 Flashcards

1
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The force required to distribute the embalming solution throughout the body. multiple ones

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Pressure machines

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Apparatus that is connected to the water supply when the water is turned on, suction is developed and is used to aspirate the contents of the body’s cavities.

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Hydro aspirator

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3
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Device that uses a motor to create a suction for the purpose of aspiration.

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Electric Aspirator

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Apparatus used to inject arterial fluid during the vascular arterial phase of the embalming process. Relies on gravity to create the pressure required to deliver the fluid (0.43 pounds of pressure per 1 foot of elevation).

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Gravity Injector

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5
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Historical instrument resembling a large hypodermic syringe attached to a bottle apparatus. Used to create either pressure for injection or vacuum for aspiration.

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Hand pump

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6
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Self-contained, soft rubber manual pump designed to create pressure to deliver fluid as it passes through one-way valves located within the bulb. It is used only to deliver fluids it cannot be used for aspiration.

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Bulb syringe

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Electrically heated blade that maybe used to dry moist tissue, and restore contour.

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Electric spatula

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Lifting devices that are useful for moving the deceased from the removal cot to embalming table, from table to dresser table, placement in casket and more.

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Body lifts

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9
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Over or appliance for sterilizing. An auto clave that sterilizes by steam under pressure at temperatures above 100*C.

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Sterilizers

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10
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Preparation room equipment for properly positioning bodies before, during and after vascular embalming.

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Positioning devices

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11
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A table bodies are placed on to be disinfected, cleaned and embalmed.

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Embalming tables.

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12
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tables bodies are placed on for dressing, makeup and hair

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Dressing tables

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13
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place to store bodies before during and after embalming.

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Refrigeration

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14
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Occupational safety and health administration required receptacles for proper disposal of sharps.

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Sharps container

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15
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Tube used to inject embalming solution into the blood vascular system.

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Arterial tubes

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16
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Mechanical device used to impel specially designed metal pins into bones.

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Needle injector

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17
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Two-piece embalming instrument consisting of a handle and a blade used to make incisions and excisions.

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Scalpel

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18
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An embalming instrument that is used for blunt dissection and in Rasing vessels.

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Aneurysm

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19
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is a curved cutting instrument that cuts from the inside outward. It can also be used for excision of tissues.

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Bistoury knife

20
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Used for cutting like the bistoury knife and scalpel, they can also be used to open arteries and veins.

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Scissors

21
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is used to expand a vein to help guide a drain tube or draining device such as angular spring forceps into a vein for drainage.

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Ground Director

22
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Can be used to clamp leaking vessels. A modification is the arterial hemostat, which is used to hold the arterial tube in an artery.

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Hemostats

23
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These angular forceps have a working length of 2 1/2 to 7 inches. They are inserted much like a drain tube into a vein and directed toward the heart. They allow clots to be grasped and pulled from within a vein.

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Arterial fixation forceps.

24
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An instrument used for grasping and holding tissues.

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Spring forceps

25
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are used as a drainage instrument, generally in the internal jugular vein.

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Angular fixation

26
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Embalming instrument, inserted into a vein used to aid the drainage of venous blood from the body.

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Drainage tubes

27
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Used to close autopsy incisions as well as incisions made to raise vessels.

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Suture needles

28
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an instrument that attaches to the aspirating hose. It is designed to be inserted into the nostril or throat for limited aspirations of the nasal passage or the throat.

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Nasal aspirator

29
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Used to aspirate blood and arterial fluid from the cavities of an autopsied body.

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Autopsy aspirator

30
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Sharply pointed surgical instrument used in cavity embalming to aspirate the cavities and inject cavity fluid. The trocar may also be used for supplemental hypodermic embalming

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Trocar

31
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A long thin trocar used for supplemental hypodermic embalming.

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Hypovalve trocar

32
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an instrument that screws onto the bottles. When the device is inverted, cavity fluid flows through the trocar into the body cavities.

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Cavity fluid injector

33
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a very thin, hollow tube with one sharp tip. used with a syringe, to inject fluid or extract flids from the body

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Hypodermic needle

34
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Is used to insert the trocar button

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Trocar button applicator

35
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a device to hold needles

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Needle holder

36
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Chemicals that inactivate saprophytic bacteria, render unsuitable for nutrition the media upon which such bacteria thrive, and will arrest decomposition by altering enzymes and lysins of the body as well as Coverting the decomposable tissue to a form less susceptible to decomposition.

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Preservation chemicals

37
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Chemicals used in addition to vascular and cavity embalming fluids, include but are not limited to hardening compounds, preservative powders, sealing agents, molding preventative agents, and compress application agents.

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Accessory chemicals

38
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A fluid the embalmer injects prior to the preservative solution or adds to the preservative solution to enhance certain qualities of the preservative fluid (.e.g;coinjection, dye, humectant, and water conditioner.)

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Supplemental fluids

39
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Agents that provide a barrier or seal against any leakage of fluid or blood.

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Sealing agents

40
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used to pack body cavities.

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cotton

41
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Thin, domelike shell made of hardened cloth, metal, or plastic placed beneath the eyelids to restore natural curvature and to maintain the position of the closed eye.

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Eye Caps

42
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Plastic, threaded screwlike device for sealing punctures and small round trocar openings.

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Trocar button

43
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Device used in the mouth to shape the contour of the lips

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Mouth Former

44
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Can be used to protect clothing from conditions such as ulcerations, gangrene, or burnt tissue. They help to control leakage from tissues donor body, autopsied body or the conditions of edema.

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Plastic goods/undergarments

45
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Thread, cord, or wire used for tying vessels, tissues, or bones.

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Ligature

46
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Device used to fasten the calvarium to the cranium after a cranial autopsy.

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Calvarium clamps

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