Handbook of Autopsy Practice (Softcover)

Description

Handbook of Autopsy Practice, Fourth Edition is divided into three parts. Part I contains six new chapters in which the reader will find an assortment of tools that will increase the value of the autopsy. Included in the section are valuable resources and tools such as a sample next-of-kin letter, a quality assurance worksheet, new discourse on the dissection procedure which is accompanied by a worksheet and template for the gross description. There is also a new, detailed discussion of the safe handling of sharps, complete with photographs and the reader will also find the updated requirements of the Eye Bank of America and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for ocular tissue transplantation.

Part II has been updated with new diseases and recent references added. Practicing autopsy pathologists, residents and students are invited to review this alphabetical listing of disorders before each autopsy in order to re-acquaint themselves with what they might encounter. Part III provides a series of tables providing organ weights and body measurements for fetuses, children and adults.

Handbook of Autopsy Practice Fourth Edition is an essential resource for clinicians, pathologists, residents and students who strive to hone their trade and increase the value of the autopsies they perform.

Table of Contents

Part I: Autopsy Techniques and Procedures

• Ensuring Quality in the Academic Hospital Autopsy
  Brenda L. Waters
• Principles of Dissection
  Brenda L. Waters
• The Cardiovascular System
  William D. Edwards and Dylan V. Miller
• The Nervous System
  Caterina Giannini and Haruo Okazaki
• The Eye and Adnexa
  R. Jean Campbell and Cheryl R. Hann
• The Autopsy Laboratory
  Brenda L. Waters
• Autopsy Microbiology
  Brenda L. Waters
• Autopsy Chemistry
  Vernard I. Adams
• Chromosome Analysis on Autopsy Tissue
  Gordon W. Dewald
• Postmortem Imaging Techniques
  Jurgen Ludwig
• Autopsies Involving Radioactive Material
  Kelly L. Classic
• The Hospital Autopsy Report, Death Certification
  Brenda L. Waters
• Medicolegal Autopsy and Postmortem Toxicology
  Vernard I. Adams
• Legal Aspects of Autopsy Practice
  Vernard I. Adams
• Fixation and Shipping of Autopsy Material
  Brenda L. Waters
• Museum Techniques
  Brenda L. Waters

Part II: Alphabetic Listing of Diseases and Conditions

Jurgen Ludwig with Vernard I. Adams (Medicolegal and Toxicologic disorders)
William D. Edwards (Cardiovascular System)
Caterina Giannini (Neuropathologic disorders)
Brenda L. Waters (Pediatric and Infectious disorders)

Part III: Normal Weights and Measurements

Hagen Blaszyk, Brenda L. Waters