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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Eye injuries from dissection of preserved specimens
Date: November 7, 2012 3:01:38 PM EST
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Demystify:
I got the following inquiry from one of my colleagues:
Do you have any figures for
how many eye injuries per year come from animal dissections in instructional
labs? Or something similar to that? I'm wondering this because when
I observed Dr. X dissecting a cadaver, I noticed that the tissue is moist
to preserve the body, but there are no "puddles" or "pocket" of preservative
that I noticed. I know there have been documented cases of
formaldehyde-based preservatives getting in people's eyes, but I can't seem to
find any statistics on it.
Does anyone have any information on this? I suspect an appeal is
being made to relax the requirement to wear eye protection when
dissecting and my colleague would like to provide rationale for its use
based on past performance (which is no guarantee of future results).
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