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Autopsy Table

Autopsy Table

... and a tripod leg!

I noticed the two hooks underneath this side of the table, and again on the table at Pilgrim (different model)... anyone know what they are used for?
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The addition of the tripod leg could be your nod to the early crime scene photographers who used such wide angle lens pointed down that you could often see all three tripod legs and the feet of the photographer in the shots.
Jeremy Harris
Tue 09-13-2005
More specific info about autopsies - don't look if you are squeamish, even though it is mostly the "bare bones" workings (ha ha):

http://web2.iadfw.net/uthman/Autop.html
http://health.howstuffworks.com/autopsy4.htm
Lynne
Tue 09-13-2005
I learned something new tonite, thanks Lynne :)
dunric
Wed 09-14-2005
me too
Ed
Wed 09-14-2005
ummmm.... wheres the jars of yellow liquid?
silkster40z
Thu 09-15-2005
Different hospital - http://www.opacity.us/site50.htm
Motts
Thu 09-15-2005
[Psssst!!!!! I think anna stole those when she stole the beer! Hope she doesn't get mixed up and drink the wrong stuff . . . ]
Lynne
Thu 09-15-2005
one word lynne................EWWWWWWWWWWW
anna
Thu 09-15-2005
WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA!!!!!! 8`-)

[Blechhh!!! You are right - that WAS pretty disgusting, wasn't it? :-) ]
Lynne
Thu 09-15-2005
The yellow stuff was just pudding!! ;-)
Ed
Fri 09-16-2005
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
silkster40z
Sun 09-18-2005
LOL !! ;-)
Ed
Fri 09-23-2005
The hooks are probably used to tie down limbs. Being in the medical field, I can tell you that once rigi sets in, it can be very difficult to make extremities stay where there supposed to.
Nikki
Sun 11-13-2005
Makes sense, thanks Nikki!
Motts
Mon 11-14-2005
Possibly the hooks were for containers of embalming fluid?
Season
Sun 12-11-2005
u ppl on here r too funny! some of the things u say r just too good to be true! lol
Amanda J
Thu 03-02-2006
You think its scary you should see it at midnight pitch dark with only flashlights guiding your way!! Yeah scary I went the other night-- the top of the table is no longer there
Kathryn R
Sat 03-04-2006
The hooks are for a hose to rinse the table surface as well as organs etc... They are on most stationary autopsy tables.
Robert Graves
Mon 03-13-2006
Maybe you hang buckets on them to catch the goo.
brokenbottles
Thu 05-18-2006
I could think of a few good uses for that table and hooks .... but thats for another website.... ROFLMAO!
Smurfy
Sun 05-21-2006
Love the site and had to pipe in on this one.
I'm a Veterinary nurse and our operating tables have hooks to secure an animal onto the table during surgery with rope or bungee cord.
That's what they are!
I guess they didn't want the body slipping.
Once again, FANTASTIC photos!

-Lex
Lexigore
Wed 06-14-2006
Just quietly, this looks too simple to be an autopsy table. Nowhere near enough drainage. Perhaps just a layout table??
Aussie Nurse
Sun 07-02-2006
It is most definitely an autopsy table, the metal underneath the grill funnels into the center drain that runs through the hydraulic piece. From my experience, this is one of two autopsy table models that are quite common in US hospitals.
Motts
Sun 07-02-2006
where is this autopsy table located in the building?
Smokin da trees
Wed 08-30-2006
to hang a bucket to collect body fluids
Odette
Fri 11-17-2006
Hooks on the side of the autopsy table to hook the gourney to for body transfer??? Just a thought.
AB
Fri 04-06-2007
To make certain insicisons more precice the hooks help to hold the body in place and prevent it from moving around or falling off the table. They were also used to secure sheets over the body so if someone is called in to identify a body they don't have to see other bodies that are being worked on.
Wormfood
Wed 03-12-2008
The hooks are for connecting gurneys to the table when we transfer the body. If you see a hook like that in the foot-end, it is for a bucket, if the table or gurney lack drainage. I am a post mortem technician and see them quite often.
H.B.
Wed 02-25-2009

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