Advanced Embalming: Specialized Cases and Techniques
Course Overview
This advanced embalming course is designed and intended to improve the skills and knowledge base of practicing licensed funeral professionals. The cause, manner, and age at death vastly differ within individual cases, and thus special attention must be brought to each situation. This course focuses on the less common techniques applied in cases where an embalming is specialized in the manner of care and preparation.
Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Define advanced embalming and distinguish between natural and artificial means of preservation.
- Identify the chemical components of embalming fluids and their roles in achieving proper preservation.
- Recognize special body conditions and apply appropriate treatment protocols.
- Demonstrate proficiency in embalming difficult and traumatic cases, including those involving edema, decomposition, tissue recovery, and long bone preservation.
- Apply specialized embalming techniques to less common cases such as severe trauma, infant, and autopsy preparations.
About the Author/Presenter
Taylor Walding is a duly licensed funeral director and embalmer in the state of Texas since 2013, and has been in the mortuary industry since 2005. While completing mortuary school in 2011, he interned at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, first learning of the wonders of anatomical embalming then, after graduation from Dallas Institute of Funeral Service, Taylor apprenticed as a funeral director in 2012 at Brown's Memorial Funeral Home in Irving then in 2013 as an embalmer at Restland Funeral Home in Dallas. In late 2018, Taylor returned to UTSW as an anatomical embalmer, learning of the variety of benefits to both families and fellow embalmers in the field.
Audience/Accreditations and Approvals
Colibri Healthcare
This course is designed for the following healthcare professions:
Funeral Director
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