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Scissors - ANSWER✔✔Used for cutting. Can be used to open arteries and veins.
Aneurysm Hook - ANSWER✔✔A SHARP pointed tip.
Bistoury knife - ANSWER✔✔A curved cutting instrument that cuts from the
inside outwards. Can open arteries and veins. Also used for the excision of tissue.
Hemostats - ANSWER✔✔Used to clamp leaking vessels.
Arterial Hemostat - ANSWER✔✔Used to hold the arterial tube in place.
Scalpel - ANSWER✔✔A sharp cutting instrument used to make incisions.
Suture Needles - ANSWER✔✔Are used to close autopsy incisions as well as
incisions made to raise vessels for injection.
Ligature - ANSWER✔✔Suture thread.
Y-tubes - ANSWER✔✔It allows embalmers to embalm both legs or both arms at
the same time.
,Hypovalve Trocar - ANSWER✔✔Used for hypovalve treatments. This isn't used
for aspiration but rather injection.
Drain Tubes - ANSWER✔✔A metal cylinder with a cleaning rod designed to be
inserted into a vein. Inserted towards the heart. They keep the vein expanded and
can be closed to build circulatory pressure. The stirring rod can be used to
fragment clots.
Iliac Drain Tube - ANSWER✔✔A long drain tube designed to be inserted into the
external iliac vein and the tip is directed into the right atrium of the heart. May be
made of soft rubber, plastic, or metal.
Groove Director - ANSWER✔✔Helps expand a vein to help guide a drain tube or
drainage device such as angular spring forceps into a vein for drainage.
Nasal Tube Aspirator - ANSWER✔✔Attached to the aspirator hose. Designed to
be inserted into the nostril or throat for limited aspiration of the nasal passage or
the throat.
Trocar - ANSWER✔✔Sharp-pointed instrument which, when attached to an
aspiration device, can be used to pierce organs in order to aspirate them and fill
them with cavity fluid:
Infant Trocar - ANSWER✔✔Short and small in diameter. Used to aspirate and
inject the cavities.
Cavity Fluid Injector - ANSWER✔✔Screws onto the cavity fluid bottle. When the
device is inverted cavity fluid flows through the trocar and into the bodies cavity.
,Trocar Button - ANSWER✔✔A threaded plastic screw used for closing trocar
punctures.
Arterial Tube - ANSWER✔✔Tube used to inject embalming solution into the
blood vascular system.
Spatula - ANSWER✔✔Flat, blunt, knifelike instrument used for mixing cosmetics
and modeling.
Electric Aspirator - ANSWER✔✔Device that uses a motor to create a suction for
the purpose of aspiration.
Pressure - ANSWER✔✔the force required to distribute the embalming solution
throughout the body.
Rate of Flow - ANSWER✔✔the amount of embalming solution that enters the
body in a given period and is measured in ounces per minute.
Potential Pressure - ANSWER✔✔the pressure reading on the gauge in the
centrifugal machine, indicating the pressure in the delivery line of the machine
with the rate of flow valve closed or the arterial tubing clamped shut.
Differential Pressure - ANSWER✔✔the difference between the potential pressure
reading and the actual pressure reading. This is an indicator of the rate of flow.
Actual Pressure - ANSWER✔✔the reading on the pressure gauge on the
centrifugal pump when the rate of flow valve is open and the arterial solution is
entering the body.
, Intravascular Pressure - ANSWER✔✔Pressure developed as the flow of
embalming solution is established and the elastic walls expand and then contract
resulting in filling of the capillary beds and development of pressure filtration.
Leur-lok - ANSWER✔✔quarter turn type of arterial tubes.
Albert Worsham - ANSWER✔✔Lecturer. Contributed to the early foundation of
post mortem plastic surgery. Opened a school in Chicago.
Clearance Strub - ANSWER✔✔Had the ability to explain embalming theory and
practices. Wrote the text book Principles and Practices of Embalming.
Work Practice Controls - ANSWER✔✔Controls that reduce the likelihood of
exposure by altering the manner in which a task is performed.
Aspesis - ANSWER✔✔Freedom from infection and from any form of life;
sterility.
Samuel Rodgers - ANSWER✔✔Inventor of the trocar.
Diodorus Siculus - ANSWER✔✔Greek Historian.
Hypodermic Embalming - ANSWER✔✔Injection of embalming chemicals
directly into the tissue through the use of a syringe and needle or a trocar.
E.G. Bernard - ANSWER✔✔Founded the Bernard School of Embalming.
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