Autopsy and poo

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i have to say that no poo has even come close to the smell of the decomps that I have enjoyed this last week. I'm at the ME office and the techs get a kick out of watching my face when I get the waft after peering a little too close at the maggot infested head wounds of the not-to-recently deceased. The one they named "Mr. Green Jeans" was the worst.
 
augmel said:
i have to say that no poo has even come close to the smell of the decomps that I have enjoyed this last week. I'm at the ME office and the techs get a kick out of watching my face when I get the waft after peering a little too close at the maggot infested head wounds of the not-to-recently deceased. The one they named "Mr. Green Jeans" was the worst.

Holy frogs there is a bad smell here. Some kind of mummified body that was left in a recycling plant or something, probably by the mafia hoods that took his arms off before death. He is bagged up and everything and still the smell is around. The diener had just finished wrapping him up (was an autopsy over the weekend) and said to me, "you want to see him?"
No, I said. But that smell will be with me for awhile now.

As almost everything can be related to the movie Goodfellas, remember that scene where they are digging up Billy Batts because their burial site was about to be a new mini mall or condo complex or something? And Ray Liotta is hacking up a lung while Joe Pesci is making jokes, "I found an arm, and a leg, and here's a wing!" Joe Pesci would make a good diener on decomp cases.

On the bright side, perhaps we found Jimmy Hoffa.
 
stormjen said:
#3 Poo during delivery (now that's just wrong - it's supposed to be a happy moment, why go and ruin it with poo)

You MUST not have children! 🙄 :laugh:
 
New residents. Post your poo stories here.
 
Did I ever post about the autopsy I did where the clinicians said their very thin patient had a lower abdominal mass (felt on exam in the days prior to death)? Well, we found the mass. It was a big hard piece of impacted crap. That poor man must have suffered until his death (I think it was heart failure or something).
 
I had an autopsy today, but our wonderful dieners clean the poo for me. It still smells though. What was more impressive was the 7cm by 10cm ruptured aortic aneurysm. Now that is a real aneurysm, not some wussy circle of willis crap.
 
yaah said:
Did I ever post about the autopsy I did where the clinicians said their very thin patient had a lower abdominal mass (felt on exam in the days prior to death)? Well, we found the mass. It was a big hard piece of impacted crap. That poor man must have suffered until his death (I think it was heart failure or something).
Did he have a stercoral ulcer?

Reminds me of a patient I saw during my surgery rotation. She was abusing some narcotic that made her chronically constipated...**** spewed all over in her peritoneal cavity after the ulcer perforated, major surgery had to be done, and she was on TPN.
 
Dumb question: what's a diener?
 
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The word Diener is derived from German: "Leichendiener", which means ‘servant for the dead.’

In a morgue, a Diener (also referred to as a morgue attendant) is the person responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the body.
 
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

The word Diener is derived from German: "Leichendiener", which means ‘servant for the dead.’

In a morgue, a Diener (also referred to as a morgue attendant) is the person responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the body.
Ah...I knew the term in German, and I kind of figured you all were referring to morgue attendants, but wanted to make sure it wasn't some odd slang I'd never heard of. Thanks for clarifying.
 
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