Ashfaq Ul Hassan

Department of Anatomy, SKIMS Medical College, Srinagar, India

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Potential Risk of Microbial Transmission from Cadavers to its Handlers Including Teaching Staff, Medical Students, Paramedical Staff Working in Dissection Hall
  Author(s): Ashfaq Ul Hassan, Sajad Hamid and Azhar Shfi
  
  Background: Cadavers remain a principal teaching tool for anatomists and medical educators teaching gross anatomy. Infectious pathogens in cadavers that present particular risks include Mycobacterium tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, the AIDS virus HIV and prions that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) and Gerstmann Straussler Scheinker Syndrome (GSS). It is often claimed that fixatives are effective in inactivation of these agents. Unfortunately cadavers, even though they are fixed, may still pose infection hazards to those who handle them. Specific safety precautions are necessary to avoid accidental disease transmission from cadavers before and during dissection and to decontaminate the local environment afterward. In this brief review, we describe the infectious pathogens that can be dete.. Read More»
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