Donated bodies blown up by Army

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[Stew Padasso]

When Tulane University found itself with a temporary oversupply of cadavers that had been donated to science a few years ago, the school did what it usually does: It called a cadaver broker.

Tulane said it assumed the broker would ship the bodies to other universities, where medical students would dissect them.

[Stew Padasso]

"He blowed up REAL GOOD!

[IGOTMINE]

It seems I saw this story a few years ago?

[Delta 21]

I would rather have my body (after I'm done with it) blown to bits to further technology and help design some new hi-tech gear to save soldiers lives on the battlefield, than laid out on a table and disected.

....but thats just me.

[Kirkwood]

Cadaver research that will lead to fewer injured American GIs seems like legitimate medical research to me. Tulane still is smarting from their association with DOD research using animals to minimize head injuries on the battlefield.

[Buck W.]

Bad news for John Kerry. They would have voted Democraat.

[Objective Reality]

"He blowed up REAL GOOD!

Thanks for just making me honk snot all over my monitor.

Allow me to speak for most of twisted America's psyche when I say, about this story:

Neat!

[texasflower]

It is surprisingly easy to get a cadaver for study. I used to teach paramedic students. Part of their training was to learn how to insert an endotracheal tube.

Many hospitals do not allow students to practice on live patients (almost always on surgical patients requiring an ET tube).

As a result, instructors and coordinators often have to find alternative training methods.

I received a brochure from a major medical school that would provide a cadaver for my student's use and they would maintain the body at their lab or I could take the body myself.

It was only 1000.00 for a year.

Fortunately, I was able to find a hospital that would allow my students to do their intubation practice in the OR.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Every profession has dishonest people," she said. "They live everywhere, and thank goodness they're the minority."

Somewhere, somehow I think this person needs to redefine dishonest people.. One should never be amazed at how many bad people there are out there. One should be amazed at how many good people there are. Unfortunately, that number is not the majority..

At first I thought the Army was using this to give instructions and knowledge to it's medical staff as to the nasty effects of land mines, and any subsequent first aid or surgical requirements. Upon reading, it's determining the protective effects of a boot.

Either way, rather a cadaver than a boy named sue...

[Richard-SIA]

So providing the Army with the real world material they need in order to develop boots that will help to keep our troops alive and whole is not ethical?

[Tribune7]

"How would you feel if your mother's body was donated to science . . . and she ends up being thrown on a land mine?

As opposed to what? Dissection?

[Old Professer]

I done tole' everbody, my body ain't bein' used nowhere for nothin' after I'm gone; ain't gone be fit for nothin' then nohow.

[scarface367]

So providing the Army with the real world material they need in order to develop boots that will help to keep our troops alive and whole is not ethical?

Not if you're a whiny liberal that could care less about our troops

[primeval patriot]

Army Pathologists are people too.

[Old Professer]

You practice that crap!!?? What happens after the third or fourth try?

[Riley]

I think I'll see if I can get my body to star in "Weekend at Riley's". Long after I have shuffled off this mortal coil, my body can party on- and probably making more money than I did in life, too. :-)

[Chewbacca]

Just prop you up by the jukebox when you die, huh?

[texasflower]

The endotracheal tube isn't a tracheotomy. It just goes into the trachea either through the nose or mouth. It doesn't open the skin like a tracheotomy does.

With a cadaver, unless some sort of damage occurs the tube can be inserted and withdrawn any number of times. (Ahem, I mean the endotracheal tube.)

To damage the passageway, someone would have to be really, really overaggressive.

In surgeries, the students are supervised by an anesthesiologist. If they make a mistake, the tube can be reinserted properly. Under proper supervision, it really is safe for the patient. Surgical patients that are intubated by students are going to get intubated anyway. (having any surgeries soon?)

This way at least, the paramedic can intubate a patient in the field properly.

I owned a reputable school, so all of my students were able to intubate live patients in some of the Houston area hospitals.

I went to paramedic school at the University of Texas. We had a lot of really good training opportunities.

I maintained a lot of my contacts from my training and I was able to get really good opportunities for my students.

[thoughtomator]

The army should use dead jihadis

[lainde]

Of course they have to practice. It's a tough procedure to learn. On a live patient, it's a race against time without oxygen as you're trying to "get in".