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Procedures and Protocols for Cadaver Use at Imperial Valley College
Procedures and Protocols for Cadaver Use at Imperial Valley College Statement: Imperial Valley College (IVC) is committed to providing its students the best possible education. The study of human anatomy is a vital component of the education of pre- healthcare professionals and can be enhanced through the detailed study of the human body. Imperial Valley College believes that the use of donated human bodies provides its pre-professional health care students a unique opportunity to better understand the structure and structural relationships of the human body. The use of donated bodies enables students to appreciate the size and 3-dimensionality of a body that they would otherwise not be exposed to without the study of cadavers. Similarly, use of donated bodies by our students provides them the additional benefit of evaluating biological variation and a chance of viewing various pathologies. Imperial Valley College also believes the benefits of using cadavers go beyond an understanding of anatomy by providing students “a first patient,” thereby exposing them to an element of humanness that they would otherwise not receive if IVC did not use donated bodies. Imperial Valley College believes that through the use of donated bodies our students will be better prepared to pursue successful careers in the health care industry. Imperial Valley College recognizes the value and importance of donated bodies and is committed to ensuring that donated bodies will always be treated with the utmost care and respect. Survivors may gain some comfort in the knowledge that IVC fully understands the indispensable and honorable contribution that body donors have made to the education of our students. -
Multicentricity of Breast Cancer
/ Int Soc Plastination, Vol 3:8-14, 1989 8 MULTICENTRICITY OF BREAST CANCER. RESULTS OF A STUDY USING SHEET PLASTINATION OF MASTECTOMY SPECIMENS Axel Müller, Andreas Guhr, Wolfgang Leucht (Frauenklinik) Gunther von Hagens (Anatomisches Institut) University of Heidelberg, 6900 Heidelberg 1, West Germany INTRODUCTION These questions may only be answered after complete histological Carcinomas of the female breast examination of breasts from total are judged to be mostly multicentric mastectomy patients suited for BCTh. (Fisher et al., 1975; Gallager and Martin, 1969; Morgenstern et al., Guhr and co-workers (1987) 1975) and only total breast removal described sheet plastination as the was recommended until about 1960. best method for fast, complete Since then, breast conserving therapy histological study of mastectomy (BCTh), i.e. surgical excision of the specimens. In the present study tumor in combination with radiotherapy using sheet plastination, frequency of the remaining breast, has been and topographical distribution of performed in selected patients. The tumor foci, which remain in the breast survival rate of BCTh patients is not after BCTh, were evaluated in 131 significantly different when compared patients. to total breast removal, and the local recurrence rate is about 4-8% in five years (Fisher and Wolmark, 1986; MATERIALS AND METHODS Veronesi et al., 1986). In 70-90% of local failures following BCTh, Between 1978 and 1981, modified carcinoma growth was found at the radical mastectomies with full primary tumor site. Four hypotheses axillary dissections were carried out may serve as possible reasons: for invasive carcinomas in 695 patients at the Division of Gynecology (1) Multicentricity is lower than and Obstetrics, University of claimed in the literature. -
Mummies and Mummification He Egyptian Ministry of Tourism Reported That a Twhopping 13.6 Million Tourists Visited the Country in 2019, up 21% from the Previous Year
MUSEUM FRIDAY FEATURE Mummies and Mummification he Egyptian Ministry of Tourism reported that a Twhopping 13.6 million tourists visited the country in 2019, up 21% from the previous year. While there are many reasons to visit this fascinating country, we might surmise that a substantial portion of Egypt’s eternal allure can be summed in one word: mummies. They are as synonymous with Egypt as sand is to the Sahara. Take the mummies and tombs away from Egypt, and its timeless appeal would evaporate like a drop of water on the desert. Mummification in ancient Egypt arose from beliefs surrounding the afterlife, and the idea that the ka (soul) left the body at death, but reunited with it if the deceased passed successfully into Aaru or the “Field of Reeds,” a heaven-like place for the righteous. Final judgment involved weighing the heart (in which the ka resided) before the god Osiris in the Underworld. In 2018, Egyptologists broke the news of the astounding discovery of an underground mummification chamber at Saqqara. The facility included a natural ventilation system, channels to drain blood, an enormous incense burner (to repel insects), and the remains of hundreds of small jars, many of which contained antibacterial agents. Substances like myrrh, cassia, cedar, etc., could be used to inhibit decomposition, but they came with a cost, and thus turning a human body into a mummy was not cheap. Male Mummy Mask Full mummification took seventy days, but only the Egyptian, Roman period, 1st–2nd c. CE elite could afford such a deluxe funeral package. -
View/Open: ETD Quigley.Pdf
TÇtàÉÅ|vtÄ \wxÇà|àç _xäxÄá Éy \wxÇà|àç Tààtv{xw àÉ cÜxáxÜäxw [âÅtÇ exÅt|Çá A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communication, Culture & Technology by Christine Quigley, B.A., B.F.A. Washington, D.C. April 20, 2007 © 2007 by Christine Quigley ii TuáàÜtvà Head slice on table. Max Aguilera-Hellweg (1994). Sagittsl section, part of a series demonstrating the anatomy of the head, prepared for the Mutter Muaeum by Dr. Joseph P. Tunis (1866-1936), 1910 (www.blastbooks.com). When a human body part is removed and preserved after death, what kinds of identity remain attached to it? There are the extremes of complete anonymity and the named remains of a famous or infamous person, but there are many shades of gray in between. Is the specimen that of a known individual or recognizable only as a race and gender? What reason would someone have to designate the preservation of his remains and ensure that the narrative of his life stays permanently attached? Does a very personal part, like face or skin, commemorate the life of that particular body or can it still be used to represent universal human anatomy? The answers are in part determined by whether the donor wanted his or her identity associated with the specimen. I examine the gradations of identity as represented by three museum objects in three different time periods. The first is the autobiography of a nineteenth-century criminal bound at his request in iii his skin (at the Boston Athenaeum). -
To Download the Entire Volume 29 Issue 2 As
The Journal of Plastination The official publication of the International Society for Plastination ISSN 2311-7761 IN THIS ISSUE: S10 Plastination Technique for Preservation of Parasites – p5 Plastination Applied to The Conservation of Cultural Heritage – p11 The Challenges of Plastinating a Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Heart – p22 Rehabilitation of Plastinated Anatomical Prosections Using Silicone Adhesive and Pre-Cured S10/S3-Impregnated Fascia and Muscle – p30 Abstracts Presented at the 12th Interim Meeting of the ISP in Durban, South Africa – p37 Preview of ISP 2018, Dalian – p65 Volume 29 (2); December 2017 The Journal of Plastination ISSN 2311-7761 ISSN 2311-777X online The official publication of the International Society for Plastination Editorial Board: Rafael Latorre Philip J. Adds Murcia, Spain Editor-in-Chief Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education Scott Lozanoff (Anatomy) Honolulu, HI USA St. George’s, University of London London, UK Ameed Raoof. Ann Arbor, MI USA Robert W. Henry Associate Editor Mircea-Constantin Sora Department of Comparative Medicine Vienna, Austria College of Veterinary Medicine Hong Jin Sui Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Dalian, China Selcuk Tunali Carlos Baptista Assistant Editor Toledo, OH USA Department of Anatomy Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, Turkey Executive Committee: Rafael Latorre, President Dmitry Starchik, Vice-President Selcuk Tunali, Secretary Carlos Baptista, Treasurer Instructions for Authors Manuscripts and figures intended for publication in The Journal of Plastination should be sent via e-mail attachment to: [email protected]. Manuscript preparation guidelines are on the last two pages of this issue. On the Cover: Royal Ontario Museum Exhibit: Dilated, dissected, cured, plastinated blue whale heart. -
It Is Immoral to Require Consent for Cadaver Organ Donation
EDITORIALS 125 Cadaver organ donation considering the human being—is finite; ................................................................................... senescence starts with the zygote, and J Med Ethics: first published as 10.1136/jme.29.3.130 on 1 June 2003. Downloaded from corporeal death is its inevitable end. After death the human body decays, a It is immoral to require consent for process with which few are familiar and which excites revulsion which is both cadaver organ donation instinctive and learned. The instinctive part of this revulsion I think is easily H E Emson explained, as an inherited reflex ac- quired by ancestral experience that ................................................................................... rotten meat is not good to eat. Embedded very deeply in the nature of humanity No one has the right to say what should be done to their body there is another element to this, a belief after death that death is not the end of the soul and that the life of the body can somehow persist or be restored. This was expressed n my opinion any concept of property them have ever viewed and touched a in the burial practices of the earliest in the human body either during life or human cadaver, or seen a decomposing humans, in the staining of bones of the Iafter death is biologically inaccurate body. deceased with red pigment as a symbol and morally wrong. The body should be Out of all this I have become what I of continuing or resurgent life. Such regarded as on loan to the individual understand is termed a dichotomist, one practices have been elaborated by many from the biomass, to which the cadaver who believes that the body and soul are different cultures, as in preservation and will inevitably return. -
DOCUMENTING LONG-TERM CARE, INCAPACITY, and END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS1 by Jill A
DOCUMENTING LONG-TERM CARE, INCAPACITY, AND END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS1 By Jill A. Snyder, Esq.2 Law Office of Jill A. Snyder, LLC www.snyder-law.net I. Long-Term Care Options and Planning in a Nutshell3 A. Federal Programs and Public Housing: Federal government programs exist that provide both rental and mortgage assistance to the elderly.4 Some of the most-widely used programs include: 1. Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly is a Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”)-administered program that provides supportive housing for very low-income persons age 62 and older. This program gives capital advances to non-profit organizations to construct or rehabilitate structures that will serve as supportive housing. Support services include activities such as cleaning, cooking, and transportation. Capital advances do not need to be repaid so long as supportive housing remains available for at least forty years. This program also includes funding to cover the difference between what the renter can pay and the cost of operating the project. To be eligible for residency in Section 202 housing, one occupant must be 62 years or older with a household income at or below 50% of the area median income. 2. Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program is a federally funded program that distributes vouchers through state, regional, and local housing agencies. Section 8 assists both renters and homeowners 1 Presented on behalf of the National Business Institute on December 6, 2012, in Baltimore, Maryland. 2 I would like to thank my Legal Assistant, Kristie Ehlers, for her assistance in preparing these materials. -
A Study on the Preservation of Exhumed Mummies by Plastination
20- J lnt Soc Plastination Vol 13, No 1: 20-22, 1998 A Study on the Preservation of Exhumed Mummies by Plastination Zheng Tianzhong, You Xuegui, Liu Jingren, Zhu Kerming Department of Anatomy, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China. (received March 7, accepted April 14, 1998) Key Words: Su-Yi Chinese Silicone, Archeology, Paleopathology Abstract Due to the great importance of mummies for archeological research, methods have to be developed to preserve these specimens. Two preserved mummies (died 410 and 380 years ago) were exhumed and plastinated to avoid deterioration from exposure. They were first re-fixed with formalin and dehydrated at room temperature in a graded series of acetone solutions. The corpses were then pre- impregnated, force impregnated with silicone and subsequently cured all at room temperature. Histological studies were performed before and after plastination on pieces of lung, liver, kidney, heart, spleen and skin. Plastination improved the color and flexibility of the mummies and will permanently preserve them. Introduction of plastination of an archaeological human specimen has been reported (Wade and Lyons, 1995). In our laboratory, we suc- Mummies have an invaluable value for academic re- cessfully plastinated two ancient (400 years old) Chinese search of our national culture. Extensive research studies are corpses, through fixation, dehydration, pre-impregnation and conducted to develop methods for the preservation of these forced impregnation (Zheng et al., 1998). corpses. There are two types of mummies: dry type and wet type. For the dry type most scientists prefer to keep them in Materials and Methods a dry atmosphere, but for the wet type, scientists must dry them before keeping them in dry conditions or just immerse Case 1: ancient corpse discovered near Zhengjaing in them into bath of preservative solutions. -
Three End-Of-Life Cases: Resolving Their Moral Dilemmas
Vol. 33:2 Summer 2017 Three End-of-Life Cases: Resolving Their Moral Dilemmas RENÉ E MIRKES, OSF, PHD An organization of Roman Catholic physicians presented a set of questions to guide moral assessment of three end-of-life cases. The questions for each scenario highlight a corresponding ethical dilemma: (Case #1) the determination of brain death by neurological criteria; (Case #2) the decision to withhold or withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) (formerly referred to as persistent vegetative state, [PVS]) patient; and (Case #3) the administration of pain medication that hastens death. To adjudicate the moral concern raised in each of these clinical cases, the following moral analyses appeal to the natural law perspective summarized in the Ethical & Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services1 and in other philosophical resources, both Catholic and secular. CASE #1 An 18-year-old involved in a motorcycle accident was brought to the emergency room with massive head trauma and life support. A brain angiogram showed no blood flow, and a neurological examination revealed no brainstem reflexes as well as persistent apnea. Blood pressure medication was required for heart rate and blood pressure control. Since the patient was an organ donor, the organ recovery team was called in after he was declared brain dead. Discussion (1) When and how do we declare a person dead? What is the difference between theological and scientific definitions of death? (A) A living human being is a substantial union of a (mammalian) body and a rational soul. We are not spiritual beings who use or have bodies. -
Tracing the Body in Body Worlds, the Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies
ANATOMY OF SPECTATORSHIP: TRACING THE BODY IN BODY WORLDS, THE ANATOMICAL EXHIBITION OF REAL HUMAN BODIES by Rebecca Scott Bachelor of Arts, Simon Fraser University, 2005 THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS In the School of Communication © Rebecca Scott 2008 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Summer 2008 All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author. APPROVAL Name: Rebecca Scott Degree: MA Titles: Anatomy of Spectatorship: Tracing the Body in Body Worlds, the Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies Examining Committee: Chair: Dr. Peter Chow-White Assistant Professor, School of Communication Dr. Kirsten McAllister Assistant Professor School of Communication Dr. Zoe Druick Associate Professor School of Communication Dr Kimberly Sawchuk Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Concordia University Date: ii SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Declaration of Partial Copyright Licence The author, whose copyright is declared on the title page of this work, has granted to Simon Fraser University the right to lend this thesis, project or extended essay to users of the Simon Fraser University Library, and to make partial or single copies only for such users or in response to a request from the library of any other university, or other educational institution, on its own behalf or for one of its users The author has further granted permission to Simon Fraser University to keep or make a digital copy for use in its circulating collection (currently available to the pUblic at the "Institutional Repository" link of the SFU Library website <www.lib.sfu.ca> at: <http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/112>) and, without changing the content, to translate the thesis/project or extended essays, if technically possible, to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation of the digital work. -
How to Know If You're Dead
How to Know If You're Dead Beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul A patient on the way to surgery travels at twice the speed of a patient on the way to the morgue. Gurneys that ferry the living through hospital corridors move forward in an aura of purpose and push, flanked by caregivers with long strides and set faces, steadying IVs, pumping ambu bags, barreling into double doors. A gurney with a cadaver commands no urgency. It is wheeled by a single person, calmly and with little notice, like a shopping cart. For this reason, I thought I would be able to tell when the dead woman was wheeled past. I have been standing around at the nurses' station on one of the surgery floors of the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, watching gurneys go by and waiting for Von Peterson, public affairs manager of the California Transplant Donor Network, and a cadaver I will call H. "There's your patient," says the charge nurse. A commotion of turquoise legs passes with unexpected forward-leaning urgency. H is unique in that she is both a dead person and a patient on the way to surgery. She is what's known as a "beating-heart cadaver," alive and well everywhere but her brain. Up until artificial respiration was developed, there was no such entity; without a functioning brain, a body will not breathe on its own. But hook it up to a respirator and its heart will beat, and the rest of its organs will, for a matter of days, continue to thrive. -
FY 2007 Mississippi State Health Plan
FY 2007 Mississippi State Health Plan Mississippi Department of Health FY 2007 Mississippi State Health Plan Mississippi Department of Health Governor State of Mississippi The Honorable Haley Barbour Mississippi State Board of Health Mary Kim Smith, RN, Chairman Alfred E. McNair, Jr., MD, Vice-Chairman Larry Calvert, RPh H. Allen Gersh, MD Ruth Greer, RN Debra L. Griffin J. Edward Hill, MD Lucius M. Lampton, MD Cass Pennington, Ed.D. Norman Marshall Price Kelly S. Segars, MD Sampat Shivangi, MD Ellen Williams State Health Officer Brian W. Amy, MD, MHA, MPH Acknowledgments The Mississippi Department of Health, Division of Health Planning and Resource Development, prepared the FY 2007 Mississippi State Health Plan(also State Health Plan, or Plan) in accordance with Sections 41-7-173(s) and 41-7-185(g) Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated, as amended. The FY 2007 State Health Plan results from the comments and information supplied by various divisions of the Department of Health, other agencies of state government, health care provider associations, and interested members of the public. The Plan also reflects the direction and guidance of the Mississippi State Board of Health. The Division of Health Planning and Resource Development expresses appreciation to the many individuals who provided invaluable help in publishing a timely and accurate State Health Plan and recognizes the following agencies for particular contributions: Mississippi Department of Health Office of the Governor Communications Mississippi Department of Human Services Health