Medical Project Week 3

This week of senior project, I continued watching videos and taking notes. I have about 30 pages front/back now.

On Monday, I watched an autopsy of an obese woman and it showed many problems that can occur when one is obese and also gave some statistics about obesity. What was most surprising to me was how the excess fat was distributed; the woman even had a diaphragm covered in fat which was very interesting to me.

On Tuesday/Wednesday, I watched an autopsy video that was double most of the rest of the videos I have been watching, hence why it took two days. The video went into a lot of new territory, such as the different methods of removing organs and some pros to some of them. The organs in this video were removed en masse, or all together (minus the intestines from the jejunum – the second of three sections of the small intestine – onward. This was a method I hadn’t seen before and it made a lot of sense as to why they did it that way (which I will explain later as it’s probably going to go in the fun facts section).

Thursday, I watched two videos, one which showed a dissection of the heart and part of the dissection of the lungs all by themselves, and one showing a brain dissection. I am watching videos on individual organs, as information on the individual organ dissections was minimal (the one on the thorough heart/lungs dissection alone was  just under 30 minutes alone, so it makes sense as to why the general autopsy videos do not go more into detail on the individual organ dissections other than brief clips, as the videos would be very long if they didn’t). 

Friday and a bit of Saturday/today I watched two more individual organ dissections: One of a colon that had been removed from a living person due to there being polyploid masses on it (which are potentially cancerous) and part of a lung removed from a live person due to certain cancer.

Next week, I want to continue to watch more dissections of different individual organs to fill in all the holes/as many as I can of what I’ve seen about autopsies.

I have already learned a ton so far and look forward to learning even more.