...of Forceps, Scalpels and Cadavers (Day 2,3 and 4)

Assalamualaikum WBT

Salam 1 Dunia

*Due to some requests from some readers, I would like to write my post in Malay."

Alhamdulillah, satu lagi minggu yang memenatkan berakhir. Ya, kalau anda perasan saya menggabungkan 3 hari sekali dalam Siri "...of Forceps, Scalpels and Cadavers" ni. Bukan apa, saya kurang berkesempatan nak update setiap hari, so ini sajala cara untuk saya cerita suka duka Summer Dissection Week.

Ada beberapa readers yang tanya saya samada terutamanya dalam Facebook (mungkin sebab lebih senang berbanding guna Blogger Comments), tak takut ke tengok mayat? Tak geli ke potong-potong orang mati ni? Tak busuk ke?

Takut? Secara jujur, saya memang tak takut tengok orang yang dah mati sebab dia memang dah mati. Simple but logical; orang mati tak boleh buat apa-apa. Yang kita selalu dengar orang mati tiba-tiba bergerak tu mungkin mainan Syaitan la tu. So, beranikanla diri anda untuk tengok orang mati tapi in case kalau-kalau dia hidup balik cepat-cepat call ambulance ataupun paramedic team.

Geli tu mula-mula dulu waktu Winter Dissection je la kot sebab first time dapat mayat kan. Pegang scalpel pun terketar-ketar. Lagi-lagi kat part yang banyak lendir/ cecair tu. Haha, lepas tu kena kat white coat memang minggu tu rasa macam asyik bau Formalin je (atau Formaldehyde untuk awet mayat). Bau dia bukan busuk macam bau bangkai tu, tapi tengik sikit.

So far, untuk group saya; kitorang dah buka thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity dan expose parts of face. Buka thoracic cavity sangat seronok sebab dapat belajar macam mana nak guna entah apa nama benda tu yang guna untuk potong tulang rusuk. Memang sangat cool. Lepas tu, bolehla tengok jantung dengan paru-paru yang kemudiannya dipotong dan dikeluarkan dari thoracic cavity. Sangat best walaupun berlendir, yummy!

Part yang paling tak best ialah kepala, muka dan leher. Sebab kat sini banyak sangat nerves, artery dan vein. Ditambah lagi dengan topographical anatomy macam submandibular triangle, carotid triangle dan infratemporal fossa. Rasa macam nak makan je pakcik yang kitorang potong tu.

Dan part paling best ialah area abdominal cavity sebab ada perut, small intestine,colon dan macam-macam lagi. Siap boleh main tarik-tarik lagi usus tu. Seluk sana seluk sini sebab nak cari spleen (saya tak tau apa spleen dalam BM), appendix dan pancreas. Tapi pening juga sebab kena tau branches of arteries and veins.

macam tukang masak pun ada. (Sumber: NJ)

Heart (Jantung) - Sumber: Human anatomy website

Abdominal cavity contents, cool huh! (Sumber: Nil Per Os)

Brachial plexus (Sumber: Internet Scientific Publications)

Ni antara beberapa benda yang saya jumpa sepanjang beberapa hari Dissection Course. InsyaAllah minggu depan sambung dissect dan Khamis nanti credit exam untuk course ni.

*Nota kaki: Gambar-gambar yang disertakan di atas boleh di-google. Ada readers yang tanya boleh tak saya ambil gambar dengan mayat pakcik/makcik tu. Harap maaf, sini tak dapatla. European countries ni orang dia memang pandang tinggi ethical value termasukla menghormati mayat/cadaver yang digunakan untuk tujuan pembelajaran.

Sekian, enjoice !

...of Forceps, Scalpels and Cadavers (Day 1 - 26.04.2011)

Assalamualaikum WBT

Salam 1 Dunia.

*For some reasons I will write entries of this series (...of Forceps, Scalpels and Cadavers) in English*

As what I wrote in my previous post, today would be the 1st day of Summer Dissection Course in our faculty. Sounds interesting but in reality in wasn't, at least for me.

We started at 2.30 pm where Dr. Snajdr gave us some brief talks about what are we gonna do for today. Just like in Winter Dissection Course, he kept repeating the same things like safety of our belongings which are supposed to be kept in the locker room, bla bla bla....

Going to dissection room.....

We were supposed to do some skin removal in head and neck region and opening of the thoracic cage but using an instrument which I didn't know what it is and it's cool man! Just like in the movies.

There are two cadavers provided for each study groups and for my group. Because there were too many people working on the same body, I chose not to do the skin removal. Instead, I tried to revise my knowledge on what I've learnt before and I found out I've already forgotten a lot of things like the innervation of the upper and lower limbs.

Oh ya, I forgot to mention that we also have to open the abdominal cavity where we could find stomach, parts of liver and those intestines. I like these organs very much but they are wet and sticky which is yuckss! Not to forget the "yummy" smell, nice! And we were also asked to find the position of appendix (by using Mc Burney's and Lanz points), gall bladder (using Murphy's point) and pancreas (by using Desjardin's point).

Overall, for me the 1st day was not really interesting and quite boring. Hopefully the next day would be more exciting.

Schema showing the neck region; notice the prominent carotid arteries and omohyoid muscle (Source: Citizendia)

Picture showing the kidneys, inferior vena cava and abdominal aorta. Notice there's presence of accesory renal artery denoted by ARA. (Source: ISPUB)

Cheers.

Mari kita memotong mayat

Assalamualaikum WBT

Salam 1 Dunia

Hari yang ditunggu-tunggu sudah tiba. Apakah hari itu? Bukan hari raya itu sudah pasti.

Hari ini (26.04) ialah hari pertama untuk budak-budak 1st year Medicine kat Prague untuk Summer Dissection Course.

So, yang bestnya tiada kelas petang. Huhu....

Inilah masanya untuk bermain dengan forcep dan scalpel. Tapi kesian juga kat pakcik/makcik cadaver yang kitorang akan potong nanti.

Dan inilah juga masanya untuk bergelumang dengan "wangian" formalin yang sangat harum itu.

Saya akan guna scalpel dengan forcep je. Yang lain-lain tu coming soon, insyaAllah :)

Hooyeah!!! (Picture taken from http://www.everydayishalloween.com/doomtown2007.html)

 

Pakcik/Makcik cadaver, here I come!