Guide to Cadavers

What to Do with a Dead Body

First and foremost, if you find someone on the ground, who you think is dead, scream for Medical, unless you are medical. Whenever the Responders arrive they can decide what to do next. Once Responders arrive on scene, they can declare a person dead or not, if they aren't dead, stop reading this guide and get them to medical! If they are, it's time to call for security if they are not already there.

Responding officers should follow standard procedure for a crime scene, outlined here, before investigative staff arrive. Under no circumstances should the corpse be touched by responding officers. Should one be available, a body bag should be used to cover the deceased's body for privacy and respect, no-one wants their corpse gawked at by passerby'ers. Once Investigative staff arrive, they should follow the procedures outlined in their Guide to Forensics, before moving the body to the Autopsy room.

Autopsy Surgery

Before anything else is done, take a body scan of the corpse using the scanner in the autopsy room, and print it. You want to see what condition the body is in before you start poking and prodding it, incase anything should change. Then take blood samples from the body, run them through your advanced mass spectrometer, see if there's anything in their bloodstream, keep the results. Scrub and sterilize the autopsy lab, using sterilizine. Once that is done, it is time to move onto the actual autopsy.

1. Place cadaver onto the operating table.
2. Scan the cadaver with a Health Analyer to find injured locations.
3. Aim for the patient's affected area in the Damage Zone.
4. Cut the skin with your scalpel.
5. Vaurca will require using a surgical drill instead of scalpel to pierce the exoskeleton that wrap vaurca.
6. Use the File:Autopsy scanner.png autopsy scanner to scan the area.
7. Repeat for all injuried body parts.
8. Using previous full body scan, remove any foreign objects from the body, bag and label them.
9. Remove all organs besides eyes and brain, before bagging and store in the break room refrigerator the cooler in the morgue.
10. Cauterize any open incisions once investigation is complete, before cleaning up and returning the body to medical so they may carry out whatever the victims post-mortem wishes are.

Autopsy Reports

Right clicking on the Autopsy Scanner will let you print out an autopsy report. This will have some basic information on it. It will have:

• Time of Death
• Suspected MoI(Method of Injury) and a percentage chance -- Sometimes this will come up as something stupid, like "Yes, this man was hit 16 times in the chest by a fully organic armblade from a species that is not known to exist" when this happens, just ignore it and go for the next best thing, I.E Armblade turns into "Large Bladed Weapon with trace organic elements?".
• Times struck by weapon

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Urist McCadaver was brought in by Urist McEMT. As listed above, victim was hit several times with a toolbox and then stabbed with a screwdriver. Injuries from these weapons were not severe enough to cause death, and since suffocation damage was listed at 127, it is probably safe to assume that they were strangled. Blood count was at 83%, which supports the theory that they died before they could bleed out. The autopsy was preformed by Urist McSurgeon, and autopsy report handled by Urist McNurse.

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Urist McCadaver died within patient room two and was discovered by Urist McOrderly. Autopsy is being preformed by myself, Dr. Urist McSurgeon. An oral examination of the cadaver shows that their tongue was bitten off, and examination of their stomach contents shows where that tongue ended up. Lungs were filled with the cadaver's blood. In short, they bit off their own tongue, swallowed it, and then proceeded to drown in their own blood. Suffocation damage will support this theory, so I'm just going to rule it as a suicide and call it a day.
Signed,
Dr. Urist McSurgeon

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After completing your notes, make a copy of the report, file one in the morgue's autopsy reports cabinet, and deliver the other to security. Preferably with the detective.

Causes of Death

Oftentimes cause of death is not clear from the autopsy report. These require a little more digging and investigation to find out the truth, and experience as a Medical Doctor will help out greatly.

Decapitation

The cadaver has had its head removed before other injuries could cause death.

• Health scans reveal damages on the cadaver do not add up to 200 or over.
• There is no head.

De-Braining

The cadaver has had its brain removed while they were still alive.

• Visual examination states that they have no brain.
• Skull has already been cut into during an autopsy attempt.

Burst Appendix

The appendix has burst within the body, causes sepsis and eventually death. Often by chocking on one's own vomit.

• Toxin damage with no toxins showing up in system.
• Minor brute damage to the groin region.
• Heavy suffocation damage.
• Body was located buried in vomit.

Suicide

The cadaver had bitten off their own tongue, overflow of blood would have entered their lungs, causing drowning in their own fluids.

• Visual examination states that the individual has killed themselves.
• Severe suffocation damage.

Bleeding Out

The cadaver had gone into shock and passed away due to heavy blood loss from either internal or external wounds.

• Body appears pale.
• A Health Analyzer scan shows that their blood has fallen to dangerously low levels.
• Suffocation damage.
• Placing the body within the Body Scanner will show locations of internal bleeders.

Malpractice

Anything resulting in death caused by a doctor attempting to treat the patient is considered to be malpractice. Some of these are not great enough to cause death on it's own, but can play in as contributing factors.

Surgery Mishaps

Mistakes caused by a surgeon. Any tool mishaps will show up on the autopsy report, however preforming surgery in an non-sterile environment will cause the surgery location to become infected with sepsis.

• Visible inflamed wounds.
• Infection shows up on a Health Analyzer Scan.
• Cadaver had undergone surgery before death.

Blood Rejection

Individual was given an incompatible blood type that their body proceeded to reject.

• Toxin damage with no clear source.
• Suffocation with no clear source.
• Cadaver had received a blood transfusion before death.

Improper Transport

Individual was not transported properly during medical treatment, which resulted in further injury.

• Does not show up on any scans.
• Best indicator is large trails of blood where the cadaver had previously been.

Medication Overdose

Someone had given the patient to much of a healing medication, which resulted in overdose.

• Heavy toxin damage.
• Toxin report shows no harmful chemicals in the system.
• Using an Advanced Mass Spectrometer will show amounts of chemicals in the blood stream.

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