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O*NET detailed work activityEmbalm corpses
Stays humanHands-on work
4 jobs13 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Embalm corpses, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Perform embalming duties, as necessary.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Embalm, dress, or otherwise prepare the deceased for viewing.
- Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.