Embalming I

• it's a deceptive act or practice to represent that state or local law requirs that a deceased person be embalmed when such is not the case
• it's deceptive act or practice to fail to disclose that embalming is not required by law, except in certain special cases

• direct cremation
• immediate burial
• closed casket without viewing

embalming may be necessary if you select certain funeral arrangements, such as a funeral with viewing, etc., etc.

TB test when compared to other funeral home employers

last 12 months

a scalpel withing the last 12 months

• MRSA
• VRSA
• VRE

a pathological bacterial staph infection most commonly found in hospitals & nursing homes

affects patients with diabetes and kidney disease

• found in open wounds and feces associated with invasive devices
• catheters/colostomy bags/feeding tubes/naso gastric tubes

• HIV
• TB
• Hepatitis
• TSE

capable of infecting almost any organ/multi drug resistant commonly affects respiratory system/ respiratory TB is spread through nasal-oral discharge and sputum

• inflammation of the liver/caused by several viruses
• hep A & E are transmited by the fecal-oral route
• immunizations are available for B & A

• transmissible spongiform encephalopathy- a collection of diseases all caused by prions, and charcterized by "spongy" brain tissue (riddled with holes), impaired locomotion or coordination, and a 40 out of 40 fatality rate. Includes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) scrapie and kuru among others.
• *fatal disease cause by a prion/no RNA, no DNA/smaller than a virus difficult if not impossible to destroy, it's found in cerebrospinal fluid

a TSE associated with cannibalism in New Guinea

the human version of mad cow disease

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

scrapie

chronic wasting disease

3200 BC -650 AD

650 AD to 1861 AD

1861 AD to present

• without the deliberate intervention of humans
• freezing/dry cold/ dry heat/ compostion of the soil at place of interment

• the deliberate action of humans
• simple heat/ simple immersion/cemical or mineral powders
• evisceration & immersion/ evisceration and drying/evisceration, local incision & immersion
• arterial injection & evisceration/ cavity injection & immersion/arterial injection & cavity treatment
• artifical cold (cryonics)
• freeze dry

• vascular embalming
• cavity embalming
• hypodermic embalming
• surface embalming

the use of the blood vascular system of the body for temporary preservation, disinfection and embalming solutions into the arteries and drainage from the veins

direct treatment, other than vascular (arterial) injection, of the contents of the body cavities and the lumina of the hollow viscera; usually accomplished by aspiration and injection of chemicals using a trocar

decompostion of protiens by enzymes of aerobic bacteria. a drying out

injection of embalming chemicals directly intothe tissues through the use of a syringe and needle or a trocar

direct contact of body tissues with embalming chemicals. (using liquids, powder, gel)

• disinfection
• temporary preservation
• restoration
• "to disinfect & preserve"

destruction and/or inhibition of most pathogenic organisms and their products in or on the body

a change of body proteins so they become somewhat stabilized, their water sensitivity is decreased and they have resistance, to proteolytic enzymes (protein destruction), of both and autolytic (self destruction) and microbial types