Fill in the Donor Record

Before the first incision, the service fills in the Donor Record: what your donor looks like from the outside, what marks they carry, and what is known about their history. It comes from Dr Detton’s Clinical Observations, and it happens once per donor.

What it asks

• Donor number and lab table. Which donor this is.
• Biological sex, given or estimated age, body height, estimated bodyweight.
• General condition of the body.
• Deformities, if any.
• Special body marks. Whether any are present, where they are, and what they suggest.
• Fresh incisions and what they indicate.
• Cause of death, if known.

Height and weight write through to the demographics on the chart, so they do not end up living in two places with two different values.

One record, not nine

This is filled in per donor, not per student. Whether a scar runs midline has one true answer, and nine students each keeping their own copy would be nine things to reconcile. The latest entry wins, and your name and the time are kept against whatever you write, so a value can always be traced back.

Agree on the answer at the table before someone types it.

Why it comes before the dissection

Every finding you file later is read against this. A midline scar recorded at intake turns an unexpected adhesion in week nine into the second half of a story rather than a surprise. The intake is where the donor stops being a specimen and starts being a patient with a history.