World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

MORGUE AND POST-MORTEM: ANALYSIS AFTER DEATH

Sandip Sarkar*, Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen and Dr. Beduin Mahanti

ABSTRACT

The Hospital Morgue is a facility for the viewing and/or identification of a body and the temporary holding / storage of bodies prior to transfer to a Mortuary. Morgues keep dead bodies until they can be identified or undergo an autopsy. Hospitals include morgues for the bodies of patients who have died until they can be taken away to a funeral home. The morgue keeps the body refrigerated to prevent biological decay. Autopsy, also called necropsy, post-mortem, or post-mortem examination, dissection and examination of a dead body and its organs and structures. An autopsy may be performed to determine the cause of death, to observe the effects of disease, and to establish the evolution and mechanisms of disease processes. These dead bodies are of immense importance for scientific research purposes as they wield Cadaverine and Putrescine gases, diamino alkanes in volatile species. Basically, these are obnoxious smelling volatile gases, Cadavers are liberated from deadly human bodies or decomposed matters. Cadavers are volatile gases and are used by Medical Students for studying the anatomy, to identify disease sites and to determine the cause of deaths. These gases are obtained from unclaimed bodies. Cadaverine are alpha alkane, omega diamine straight chain core with amino substituents at 1st and 5th positions. Putrescine is a four-carbon alkane omega diamine, obtained by amino acid breakdown and have foul odour of putrefying fish. Various usage of these gases in medical field are multifunctional role in cell-growth, differentiation, and cell growth, RNA stabilization and transitional frame-shifting etc.

[Full Text Article]   [Download Certificate]