How do they get people with contractures in a casket?

[NurseyPoo7]

Seriously. I know this is probably a morbid question, but I've always wondered that... Does anyone know?

[RedhairedNurse, BSN, RN]

After my dad died, his legs relaxed to a non-contracted state.

[nightmare, RN]

It's a bit brutal but ,quite simply,they have to break the contracted limb or cut the tendons if it does not straighten out naturally.

[RN1989]

Just wait till the day you have to code someone contracted into the fetal position. The bone breaking to be able to get to the chest for compressions is really gross!

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

shoot 1989...been there before and still have the nightmares.

[SwampCat, BSN]

A friend of mine worked in a funeral home and yeah, they get really rough braking bones and such to fit them in there. gross. i've heard some really nasty stories.

[RN1989]

I thought that the first time that I did CPR on a little old person was bad, that first "crunch" under your hands.....breaking the contractures to do a code.....that was far nastier than almost anything else.

[RN1982]

shoot 1989...been there before and still have the nightmares.

I'm having dry heaves.

[Lorie P.]

my girlfriend has worked for years in various funeral homes through out the country and says " hearing those bones crack" gets to her every single time!

[RN1982]

crack, crack, crack....CRUNCH!!!!!!!

[leslie :-D]

crack, crack, crack....CRUNCH!!!!!!!

stop!

i can't take it!!!!:scrm::scrm::scrm::scrm::scrm:

*shiver*

leslie:)

[Multicollinearity, BSN, RN]

Speaking of the deceased and braking bones...do you all want me to talk about how cremated remains end up powdery and can fit into an urn? Hint, the remains come out of the retort (hot cremation thingy) with the bones mostly intact. It's the flesh/soft tissue that burns off.