During the Georgia Bureau of Investigation field trip, our class was given the opportunity to experience what a day is like for a professional in the crime lab. That included the very ins and outs (no pun intended) of an autopsy. An autopsy is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse to determine the cause and manner of death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present, usually performed by a pathologist. As a class we learned many things by observing several autopsy procedures. For instance, naming the organs as they were being taken out and dissected, identifying different structures of the brain and comparing healthy heart weighs and sizes. We were able to take our knowledge from the textbook and apply it towards a different angle. It demonstrated the importance of retaining textbook information, like the basics of anatomy, for ourselves as EMTs to better serve our community, rather than just cramming the information before the test for a passing grade.
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To hold someone's brain in your hands, you are holding their entire life from start to finish. Every memory, every dream, every emotion, everything that person has ever experienced in the span of their lifetime was just resting in the pathologist's hands, waiting to be dissected and sent off to another lab. The entire field trip's experience sincerily reinforced the necessity of our prehospital care because in certain situations we, as EMTs, are the only thing left standing between the patient and death's door step. It brings you to the realisation that one, unpredictable day that will be your lifeless body in the hand's of a professional doing their everyday job, a realisation that brings the old idiomatic expression "time is of the essance" into focus, making you want to go home and hug your
To hold someone's brain in your hands, you are holding their entire life from start to finish. Every memory, every dream, every emotion, everything that person has ever experienced in the span of their lifetime was just resting in the pathologist's hands, waiting to be dissected and sent off to another lab. The entire field trip's experience sincerily reinforced the necessity of our prehospital care because in certain situations we, as EMTs, are the only thing left standing between the patient and death's door step. It brings you to the realisation that one, unpredictable day that will be your lifeless body in the hand's of a professional doing their everyday job, a realisation that brings the old idiomatic expression "time is of the essance" into focus, making you want to go home and hug your