Rajasekhar S S S N, Dinesh Kumar V
Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, JIPMER, Puducherry, 605006 India.
SN Compr Clin Med. 2021;3(4):924-936. doi: 10.1007/s42399-021-00778-7. Epub 2021 Mar 1.
COVID-19 pandemic has posed a new challenge for medical schools across the world regarding the acceptance of donated and unclaimed dead bodies for academic purpose. Uncertainty of the COVID-19 status among the donated bodies poses a health risk for embalming personnel and medical students who handle the embalmed cadavers. There is a paucity of literature delineating the criteria for accepting or rejecting the bodies during COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, there is no recommended standard operating procedure for anatomical embalming during COVID-19. We propose certain criteria for accepting and rejecting the human dead bodies for anatomical embalming. And we propose some technical modifications to the conventional procedure of formalin-based anatomical embalming. A guarded approach and diligent screening of donated bodies is the way forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.
新冠疫情给全球医学院校在接受用于学术目的的捐赠尸体和无人认领尸体方面带来了新挑战。捐赠尸体中新冠病毒感染状况的不确定性，给尸体防腐处理人员以及接触经过防腐处理尸体的医学生带来了健康风险。目前缺乏关于在新冠疫情期间接受或拒绝尸体的标准的文献。同样，在新冠疫情期间，也没有推荐的解剖防腐标准操作程序。我们提出了一些关于接受和拒绝用于解剖防腐的人体尸体的标准。并且我们对基于福尔马林的解剖防腐传统程序提出了一些技术改进。在新冠疫情期间，谨慎的做法和对捐赠尸体的严格筛查是前进的方向。
