Today in the lab we discovered our cadaver's actual cause of death. I, for one small minute, wanted to become a pathologist! When we opened the pericardial sac to get to his heart we found a crazy, unnatural amount of blood surrounding the heart. This is a picture of a living patient, so picture all the red blood in the picture as dark brown, chunky almost plastic-like pieces of blood. It was very exciting. But once again... fat got in the way. His heart was so fatty that as we tried to find his coronary arteries, fat and oil were literally dripping off our hands. I will never eat KFC again!!!! I really wish I could take pictures in the lab (and so did my professor). It was a text book example of cardiac tamponade (blood around the heart)!Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Cause of Death!!
Today in the lab we discovered our cadaver's actual cause of death. I, for one small minute, wanted to become a pathologist! When we opened the pericardial sac to get to his heart we found a crazy, unnatural amount of blood surrounding the heart. This is a picture of a living patient, so picture all the red blood in the picture as dark brown, chunky almost plastic-like pieces of blood. It was very exciting. But once again... fat got in the way. His heart was so fatty that as we tried to find his coronary arteries, fat and oil were literally dripping off our hands. I will never eat KFC again!!!! I really wish I could take pictures in the lab (and so did my professor). It was a text book example of cardiac tamponade (blood around the heart)!
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Yummmm!!!! I think I will lay off the KFC too, that is amazing!
That is SO COOL!
Okay I honestly glanced at this picture and thought it was another recipe or maybe a gallon of ice cream...then I noticed the latex gloves! Gaggy! Never again Kent!
Ugh. How DO you make it through that class? ... and then use the word exciting? No lo comprendo! Definitely - KFC has got to go!
i could never ever look inside a cadaver. I almost threw up just imagining those dark red plastic like chunky pieces of blood. i could almost smell it too.
that is awesome! Craig's mom said she'd love to have you in a surgery, so keep your upcoming breaks in mind and she'll have watch for an interesting case!
Pretty! Look at all the pretty red blood.
What's really exciting is when one of our patients has a tamponade and we have to crack the chest in the room! (I've only been involved in about 4 or 5). It is CRAZY and very bloody and often very deadly.
I thought my tolerance for horrifying medical discussions had reached the point where I could handle anything. The picture wasn't bad, but the description. . . . ick. . .any sentence with the words chunky, blood, fat, and dripping is officially off the list of acceptable.
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