What does hospitals do with with human fleshes that were removed after a typical surgery?

Answer 1

It's burned or kept for "research purposes".

Makes me think of Soylent Green!

Answer 2

Anything that needs to go for analysis is bottled in formalin & goes to the lab. Other things are thrown in the bins that then are incinerated. The bags are all labelled to each case so that if an instrument is found to be missing on repacking, the bag is located & can be serched - lovely job!! Then it's off to the incinerator. I worked in theatres for 16 years & some things proved a challenge. Above knee amputations were a bit of a fiendish thing to dispose of because if you couldn't bend the knee joint, the package was extremely long & didn't always fit a standard incineration bag. Interesting challenge for any theatre nurse! If bowel is removed then the contents (ie the poop) needed to be removed before disposal (time for a coffee break chaps!!) What I always found disconcerting was that in our hospital social club, there was a weekly meat raffle & the chap who ran that was a mortuary technician. I was lucky enough never to win a joint!!

Answer 3

Wow! It's amazing to see all the answers here. Obviously, things are done differently from hospital to hospital.

I run the Pathology department at a major hospital. (Pathology is the part of the lab that gets the body parts (specimens), objects, etc. removed during surgery and other procedures).

This is what we do: The specimen is placed in formalin, frozen or kept fresh. Then it is grossed in by a pathology assistant who examines it for disease. He/she then cuts samples from the tissue where disease is suspected. The rest of the tissue is placed in heat-sealed baggies or containers with formalin and placed on a shelf for a month. The samples are then placed in a cassette and processed (fixed) by using heat, formalin, alcohol and paraffin (wax). The specimen is then embedded in wax and then cut in very thin layers (.3 microns) and placed on slides that are then stained and examined by a Pathologist to identify the disease.

Slides and blocks are kept for 10 years.
Tissue is kept for 1 month

Discarded slides, blocks and tissue are then put in biohazard boxes and sent to a company that incinerates medical waste and cow dung, and then uses the heat to create electricity. (I go by the facility daily on my way to work)

So, that leg that was lopped off last month becomes the electricity that heats your coffee in the morning! :) Pretty cool, huh!

Answer 4

i used to work in a hospital, anything removed from the human body is sealed in yellow bags and incinerated along with anything else used in the operation ie swabs and tissues ect and the surgeons gloves and apron etc. hope this helps

Answer 5

First they go to the laboratory preserved formalin for examination by a pathologist and a diagnosis given. They are kept preserved in formalin for a month or so and then they can be thrown out with trash or incinerated.

Answer 6

Most hospitals have incinerators that cost them an arm and a leg.

Answer 7

human flesh is placed inside a specimen bottle and then is being kept for research or study purposes.or it is given to the ones who own it when they need it for other purposes such as biopsy, investigations, or whatsoever...if the human flesh is not claimed or when it is no longer needed by the hospital, they just dispose it off...but of course they dispose the specimen properly.

Answer 8

Most major hopitals have incinerators to dispose of this type of material.

Answer 9

either burnt or if it's kept it's preserved in parafin wax (depending on what type of tissue it is) and it's usually kept for upto 30 years

Answer 10

Incineration, have you noticed the big chimneys hospitals have