how are bad body parts disposed of after an operation?
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I have breast cancer,& had one breast removed.I had asked my doctor what will happen,& he told me it is put in a sterile bag,tested & brought to a incenarature
1107953
Everything is removed from the body and when it is over with all you have is ashes. I had my sister cremated and was told that everything even her partial plate she had was removed.
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During surgery, we often use electro-cautery.  Metal implanted in the body may act as a ground and may burn you around the piercing.  Also, secondarily people have been accused of removing rings, watches ear rings etc after the patient is asleep.\n\nIf it is in when you are taken to the OR, it will be removed.  Cut off if needed and returned to you in a little plastic baggie.
331426
Your getting rid of water and salt. Your body will need water and electrolytes to survive. These cells shrivel up due to a mostly hypotonic solution.
208598
I would remove it. Why have a foreign object in your body, right? Any doctor could do it swiftly, and mostly painlessly, in a few minutes. It's probably a good idea to let a doctor do it because you might need a stitch to hold the incision closed again--though they might get away with just a ster strip.
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There is always a risk of sepsis after a surgical procedure.  But this one carries little risk.  Since the surgey takes place in a aspetic environment, infection would happen during recovery.  This would only happen if your stiches come apart before healing has finished.  But you should be given antibiotics after a surgical procedure like that anyway.
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you just threw up acid from your stomach. sometimes surgery patients throw up green vomit if they haven't eaten anything.
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A newly dead human being, or any other animal, will sink when placed in water.  After the gases of decomposition build up in the chest and abdomen, however, the body will inflate, rise like a hydrogen-filled balloon, and pop to the surface, sometimes dragging with it surprisingly heavy weights that a murderer might have thought sufficient to keep it down.   With the passage of time and further decomposition, however, the body cavities eventually rupture, the gas escapes, and the corpse goes down again, this time for good.\n\nThere is one notable exception:  sometimes, due to air caught in the clothing, a body will stay on the surface for several hours before sinking.
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Ask your surgeon...or a RN at the facility where the surgery was done. \n\nThey should have given you a list of 'to-do's' and 'not-to-do's' on your discharge papers.  Have you looked at them.  This is standard policy to provide you with this...any way if you lost those papers, phone them Monday and ask them...they'll be happy to tell you.  Each person is different and they know your history...and know exactly what you had done...so their advice would be the best. This is one time you DON'T want advice from friends, or on a board like this.
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The deceased is placed on a table that has channels running down either side of it and a drain on one end. The drain goes into a large basin, that flushes the same was a toilet does. Anything that goes into this basin is flushed into the sewage system.\nAs embalming fluid is injected in the artery of a person, the pressure causes the blood to drain. One or more of the veins is usually opened to allow for this drainage. \nWater usually runs the whole time during an embalming--it washes the blood down the table and into the sink, where is is flushed into the sewer line. \nBlood is not necessarily mixed with embalming fluid before it is flushed, but due to sewage treatment, it is harmless. \nIn some rare occasions, someone who objections to embalming will still need to be embalmed. In those cases, blood can be collected in bottles and buried with the person. This is not a standard procedure. \nIf requested by the county coroner, or if the person may be donating his/her body to science (not organ donation), a blood sample may be saved. \nBlood stays liquid in human bodies for some time after death. It may contain some clots, but is still viable to drain. I have routinely embalmed people three days dead, and once embalmed someone eight days dead. The blood was liquid.
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We don't. \n\nThe body usually finds stuff to fill up the space with. In the abdomen (peritoneal cavity), the guts just slither around into the space formerly occupied by, say, the spleen. The kidneys are in the retroperitoneal space and if you take one out the space just heals together. If you take out the uterus (which is pretty small anyway), the bladder has a bit more room.\n\nI work in the brain. If you take out a large chunk (e.g. for tumor, epilepsy surgery, or after traumatic injury) there is a space left. We fill it up with sterile saline at operation as best we can, though there's always a bit of air left (because of gravity and water level), but over the next day or so the body replaces it with the normal cerebrospinal fluid anyway. You can image these people later, and it's just a big fluid space there.
336142
Dont take the item out of the body, it will cause internal bleeding and possibly cause more damage than needed..
808717
yes, and i donate bloond too. when i die i think they will take any parts that are useable. they can have any thing they want i will not need it where i am going(hevean). when my cousion died on oct 11 they took his eyes, and bones . they most likly took other things too. i guess you could tell his bones were taken because if you tuched him he would of felt soft.
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When my brother passed away in a motorcycle accident we had his organs donated.  They do not keep your body in a locker, the organs have to basically be fresh and alive so your body is kept alive on a life support machine.  Once the organs are removed, (his heart and liver) they are put on ice and flown by helicopter to a patient waiting in the surgery room for the donated organ.  This is all organized very quickly so the recipient of the organ is notified and sent immediately to the hospital for transplant surgery.   They can only take from a body what you or your family allow.  Some people donate their whole body to medical schools and forensic studies.  It was a great feeling to know that someone lived their life with the help of my brothers organs.  We never found out who recieved them but it would have been nice to meet them.  \n\nIf you want to research this further go to your search bar and type in Organ and Tissue Donation Programs and read the listed sites.  I hope this helped answer your question - I hope other people learn from this and make a wise choice in their life.  Once you are gone you might as well share what is left to benefit someone else in need.
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Depending on what they would have left, you would experience pain or swelling. If it is something like gauze then it could also lead to infection, and with that could lead to much greater medical problems. See your Doc as soon as possible.
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There are two steps, embalming and wrapping:\n\nEmbalming\nStep 1: \nFirst, his body is taken to the tent known as 'ibu' or the 'place of purification'. There the embalmers wash his body with good-smelling palm wine and rinse it with water from the Nile. \n\nStep 2: \nOne of the embalmer's men makes a cut in the left side of the body and removes many of the internal organs. It is important to remove these because they are the first part of the body to decompose. \n\nThe liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are washed and packed in natron which will dry them out. The heart is not taken out of the body because it is the centre of intelligence and feeling and the man will need it in the afterlife.\n\nA long hook is used to smash the brain and pull it out through the nose. \n\nStep 3: \nThe body is now covered and stuffed with natron which will dry it out. All of the fluids, and rags from the embalming process will be saved and buried along with the body.\n\nStep 4:\nAfter forty days the body is washed again with water from the Nile. Then it is covered with oils to help the skin stay elastic. \n\nStep 5:\nThe dehydrated internal organs are wrapped in linen and returned to the body. The body is stuffed with dry materials such as sawdust, leaves and linen so that it looks lifelike. \n\nStep 6:\nFinally the body is covered again with good-smelling oils. It is now ready to be wrapped in linen.\n\nCanopic Jars:\nIn the past, when the internal organs were removed from a body they were placed in hollow canopic jars. \nOver many years the embalming practices changed and embalmers began returning internal organs to bodies after the organs had been dried in natron. However, solid wood or stone canopic jars were still buried with the mummy to symbolically protect the internal organs. \n\nImsety the human-headed god looks after the liver. \nHapy the baboon-headed god looks after the lungs\nDuamutef the jackal-headed god looks after the stomach \nQebehsenuef the falcon-headed god looks after the intestines\n\nSecond Half - Wrapping:\nStep 1:\nFirst the head and neck are wrapped with strips of fine linen. Then the fingers and the toes are individually wrapped\n\nStep 2:\nThe arms and legs are wrapped separately. Between the layers of wrapping, the embalmers place amulets to protect the body in its journey through the underworld. \n\nA priest reads spells out loud while the mummy is being wrapped. These spells will help ward off evil spirits and help the deceased make the journey to the afterlife. \n\nStep 3:\nThe arms and legs are tied together. A papyrus scroll with spells from the Book of the Dead is placed between the wrapped hands. \n\nStep 4:\nMore linen strips are wrapped around the body. At every layer, the bandages are painted with liquid resin that helps to glue the bandages together. \n\nStep 5:\nFinally, a large cloth is wrapped around the entire mummy. It is attached with strips of linen that run from the top to the bottom of the mummy, and around its middle. \nA board of painted wood is placed on top of the mummy before the mummy is lowered into its coffin. The first coffin is then put inside a second coffin. \n\nStep 6:\nThe funeral is held for the deceased and his family mourns his death. \n\nStep 7:\nA ritual called the 'Opening of the Mouth' is performed, allowing the deceased to eat and drink again. \nFinally, the body and its coffins are placed inside a large stone sarcophagus in the tomb. Furniture, clothing, valuable objects, food and drink are arranged in the tomb for the deceased. \n\nNow his body is ready for its journey through the underworld. There his heart will be judged by his good deeds on earth. If his heart is found to be pure he will be sent to live for all eternity in the beautiful 'Field of Reeds'. \n\n\nFor pictures of the process, canopic jars and more information:\nhttp://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/story/main.html
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At death, a person will lose control of bodily functions.  All muscles will lose contraction.  If urine is present in the bladder and/or there is the presence of substance in the bowels both will empty.