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4 types of embalming chemicals - ✔✔Arterial Fluid Cavity Fluid Supplemental Fluid
and Accessory Fluid.
Specialized Arterial Fluids - ✔✔Jaundice Fluid and High-Index Fluid
Jaundice fluid - ✔✔minimal formaldehyde would be used for those bodies which are
jaundices to prevent the formaldehyde (acting as an acid) from combining with the
bilirubin to turn the body yellow or green
Components of Jaundice fluid that are different from other arterial fluids - ✔✔" 1) low
formaldehyde
2) Reducing agents to break down the discoloration of the body
3) Bleaching agents to bleach out the discoloration
4) Counter staining agents that will attempt to restore as normal a color as possible.
High-Index fluids - ✔✔would be used on bodies that had died from drowning or had
advanced stages of decomposition.
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, Preservatives - ✔✔Aldehydes | Alcohols | Coal Tar Derivatives | Inorganic Salts
Aldehydes - ✔✔Formaldehyde | Glutaraldehyde | Acetaldehyde
Formaldehyde - ✔✔Primary Use Including paraformaldehyde
Glutaraldehyde - ✔✔Aldehydes primary use
Acetaldehyde - ✔✔Primary Use Including Paraldehyde
Alcohols - ✔✔Methanol | Ethanol | Propanol
Methanol - ✔✔Primary use alcohol
Ehtanol - ✔✔Primary use alcohol
Propanol - ✔✔Secondary use alcohol
Coal Tar Derivatives - ✔✔Phenol a.k.a Carbolic Acid
Phenol a.k.a Carbolic Acid - ✔✔Including the gel form which then it is used as a
cauterizing agent.
Inorganic Salts - ✔✔Natron
Natron - ✔✔the best example historically of inorganic salt
Supplemental Germicides a.k.a. Disinfectants - ✔✔Benzaldehyde | Propanol
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds - ✔✔Zephiran a.k.a. Benzalkonium chloride
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