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Embalming professional expectations

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  • 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
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Orientation and introduction professional expectations

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  • General
  • Professional and ethical conduct
  • Sanitation
3
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General orientation and introduction professional expectations

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  • Definition of embalming
  • Summary of embalming process
  • Need for embalming
  • Classifications of embalming
  • History of embalming
4
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Professional and ethical conduct embalming professional expectations

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  • Moral consideration

* Legal consideration

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Sanitation embalming professional expectations

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Personal and environmental hygiene

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Death professional expectations

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  • Definition
  • Terms associated
  • Types of death
  • Tests for death
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Pre-embalming changes professional expectations

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  • Antemortem (agonal changes)

* Postmortem

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Technical orientation of embalming professional expectations

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  • Equipment, instruments and accessory materials
  • Pre-embalming analysis
  • Position of body (prior to embalming)
  • Posing the features
  • Eye enucleation restoration
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Selection of arteries professional expectations

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  • 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
10
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Selection of arteries definitions professional expectations

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  • Linear guide
  • Anatomical guide
  • Anatomical limits
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Injection professional expectations

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  • Methods of creating fluid pressure
  • Pressure discussion
  • Injection pressure
  • Rate of flow
12
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Injection pressure professional expectations

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  • Factors affecting
  • Recommended pressure
  • Procedure
13
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Type of embalming chemicals professional expectations

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  • Arterial
  • Cavity
  • Supplemental fluids
  • Accessory chemicals
  • Safety in handling embalming chemicals
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Arterial embalming chemicals professional expectations

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  • Function
  • Purpose
  • Classification
  • Components
  • Effects of body tissues and tissue fluids and components
  • Effects on body tissues and tissue fluids and protein
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Cavity embalming chemicals professional expectations

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  • Purpose

* Composition

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Supplemental fluids embalming chemicals professional expectations

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  • Pre-injection
  • Co-injection
  • Humectant
  • Special arterial fluids
  • High index fluids
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Accessory chemicals embalming chemicals professional expectations

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  • Hardening compounds
  • Mold preventive agents
  • Preservative powders
  • Sealing agents
  • Pack applications
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Dilution, distribution, diffusion professional expectations

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  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Fluid distribution, fluid diffusion
  • Signs of fluid distribution and diffusion
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Drainage professional expectations

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  • Purpose and importance
  • Drainage technique
  • Veins
  • Methods of drainage in relation to injection
  • Methods of stimulating
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Cavity treatment professional expectations

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  • Definition, purpose
  • Abdominal regions
  • Four region plan
  • Trocar guides
  • Aspiration and injection equipment and methods
  • Materials to be aspirated
  • Purge
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Autopsies, necropsies or postmortem examinations professional expectations

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  • Regional
  • Exploratory
  • Organ tissue recovery
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Regional autopsies, necropsies or postmortem examinations professional expectations

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  • Cranial
  • Thoracic and / or abdominal
  • Spinal
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Postmortem conditions and their embalming treatment professional expectations

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  • Discolorations
  • Vascular difficulties
  • Decomposition
  • Dehydration
  • Body fluid accumulation
  • Purge
  • Deformities and malformations
  • Contagion and infection
  • Radiation

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