Description
Putting science back in Mortuary Science
Available topics for discussion or presentation.
- (O)EDEMA – treating systemic & peripheral (o)edema cases – against all odds
- JAUNDICE – a physiological/anatomical nightmare – treating a coloured curse case
- DEATH BY CANDIDA SPECIES (Thrush) – Invasive systemic fungal infections – should your prep., be different? Should your choice of embalming chemical, be different? Long term preservation risks
- NEMBUTAL SODIUM– use in assisted suicide & execution – embalming challenges of these cases
- MORTUARY & EMBALMING IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN CHEMO & RADIOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS – an update (incl.) permanent multiple radioactive seed implantation)
- FORMALDEHYDE a prescribed therapeutic agent, in the living
- Illicit drug use (incl.) synthetics & opiates)– vascular access & integrity challenges
- CAN A FOETUS/FETUS BE SUCCESSFULLY EMBALMED IN UTERO – the intra vascular & placental challenges – embalming progress observed by endoscope (a case study)
- VIROLOGY AND THE MORTUARY – inside & outside the body, viral survival rates – the risks evaluated incl., Hepatitis A-Z, HIV, Zika etc
- CORONA VIRUS’s (incl.) COVID19) – mortuary & embalming implications
- POST EMBALMING RESULTS/CHANGES – how current aggressive pharmaco-therapeutic agents/therapies adversely influence outcomes.
- SEPSIS – UNDERSTANDING DEATH BY MULTI-RESISTANT HOSPITAL INFECTIONS – systemic organ failure – sepsis & embalming
- NON-SURGICAL MINIMALLY INVASIVE AUTOPSY – the increasing use of non- invasive technologies to confirm a cause of death.
- ARTERIO-VENOUS MALFORMATION (AVM) – “what goes up, must come down, this is not always true! – an arterial embalmers curse
- CJD – the latest research – is the risk of X infection real? – an update for funeral industry workers
- EMBALMING BEFORE AN AUTOPSY – how, why & when?
- ELECTROCUTION – vascular, viscera & tissue challenges
- EXPLOSIVE CAPABILITIES OF GTN (Angina) patches during cremation
- PTSD/COMPLICATED GRIEF – the assumption funeral industry employees are/expected to be, psychologically strong professionals, somehow dissociated from their work.
- YOUR PHYSICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH MATTERS – do you care for yourself, as well as you do, for those in your care? Physically & psychologically funeral industry workers often neglect their own (health) care. It’s time for a confronting “check-up”…there are things much worse than death
