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ReviewJournal of anatomy2019

Toward safer thanatopraxy cares: formaldehyde-releasers use.

Vincent Varlet, Alain Bouvet, Hugues Cadas, Jean-Pierre Hornung, Silke Grabherr

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Review in Journal of anatomy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Occupational Exposure to Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk Assessment in an Anatomy Laboratory.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Article
  3. Evaluation of Physical Risk during Necropsy and Morgue Activities as Risk Management Strategy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Article
  4. Review
  5. Journal of Anatomy January 2020.Journal of anatomy · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vincent VarletSwiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy, University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3805-4664
Alain BouvetForensic Medicine and Imaging Section, University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hugues CadasFaculty Unit of Anatomy and Morphology, University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jean-Pierre HornungFaculty Unit of Anatomy and Morphology, University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Silke GrabherrSwiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy, University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.
University Centre of Legal Medicine · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cadavers constitute very useful educational tools to teach anatomy in medical scholarship and related disciplines such as physiology, for example. However, as biological material, human body is subjected to decay. Thanatopraxy cares such as embalming have been developed to slow down and inhibit this decay, but the formula used for the preservation fluids are mainly formaldehyde (FA)-based. Very recently, other formulas were developed in order to replace FA, and to avoid its toxicity leading to important environmental and professional exposure concerns. However, these alternative FA-free fluids are still not validated or commercialized, and their efficiency is still under discussion. In this context, the use of FA-releasing substances, already used in the cosmetics industry, may offer interesting alternatives in order to reduce professional exposures to FA. Simultaneously, the preservation of the body is still guaranteed by FA generated over time from FA-releasers. The aim of this review is to revaluate the use of FA in thanatopraxy cares, to present its benefits and disadvantages, and finally to propose an alternative to reduce FA professional exposure during thanatopraxy cares thanks to FA-releasers use.

Indexed as

CadaverEmbalmingFormaldehydeHumansRespiratory HypersensitivityFormaldehydeembalmingformaldehydeformaldehyde-releaserhuman body preservationthanatopraxytissue fixation

Identifiers

PMID31297814
PMCPMC6794211
OpenAlexW2960391791

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Registered trials

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