Sepsis, Sepsis, and Sepsis
Pathological anatomy is simultaneously the most interesting, and most disgusting subject I have studied so far at school!
We are mainly studying animals which spontaneously died on privately owned farms, usually pigs which died of bacterial infections. The pig we were performing a necropsy on last week was severely underweight, with cyanosis, pseudomelanosis, and distention
The first step of a necropsy, is fixation of the body. When we started this process in our pig last week we found this in the left side of the hip.
It was huge and kind of gross!
This continued to be interesting from this point on. The kidneys, liver, lungs, and the heart all had abscesses covering them.
The other notable point from this necropsy was a crupous fibrinous inflammation exudate found the length of the trachea, probably also caused by the bacterial infection filling the rest of the body.
There were fibres throughout the entire body - pleura to lungs, peritoneum to organs, and between the thoracical cavity and the heart - as a result of the fibrinous inflammation.
Cause of death: Sepsis