Handbook of autopsy practice
By: [edited by] Brenda L. Waters.
Contributors: Waters, Brenda L.; Ludwig, Jurgen, 1931-
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Totowa, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781588298416
Subjects: Autopsy
Description: This book 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.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Current methods of autopsy practice / Jurgen Ludwig. 2nd ed. 1979.

Includes bibliographical references and index.