How do they match: Embalmers

  • Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
  • Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
  • Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
  • Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
  • Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
  • Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.

  • Transport biological or other medical materials.