Anatomy and Physiology

Lab Roles for Thoracic Cavity Dissection Lab

Fall 2015
Pre-Lab Lab Roles

Person Responsible

Get goggles and aprons for the lab group (Bring back to lab group in
classroom area.)

Nafiesha

Update Lab Roles for Thoracic Cavity Dissection Lab sheet/Turn in at

the end of each day of the lab

Emily

Check each group member for close-toed shoes, hair and clothes pulled
back, goggles and apron worn properly/Put a checkmark by your group
number on the front board

Daniel

Put green tray with dissecting instruments on lab station/Put dissecting

tray on table and cover with paper towels

Daniel

Get cat out of bag and put on paper towel covered dissecting
tray/Empty fluid from plastic bag and put it in tan tub; put tub under
lab station

Lucas

During Dissection Lab Roles

Read procedure instructions for the dissectors/Direct dissecting: make
sure each group member gets a chance to dissect; keep group on task;
be aware of time

Emily

Actual dissection (dissectors)/Label the specified muscles as they are

isolated and identified

Lucas
Daniel
Nafiesha

Compose the technical journal for the lab report (This is a step by step
log of what happens each day during the dissection. The easiest way to
do this is a bulleted list.)

Emily

Take images of the properly isolated, identified and labeled muscles.

Emily

Clean up Lab Roles

Put cat back into bag, close the bag with clamps, put into second bag
and close it with paper clips; put it back into the tan tub and put it
under your lab table.

Nafiesha

Clean dissecting tray with paper towels used to line tray, discard these
and any tissue pieces, and then bring tray to me to be rinsed

Daniel

Clean, dry and put away dissecting instruments; put dissecting

equipment into green tray and put the tray under your lab station
empty water from plastic containers

Lucas

Clean lab table with purple cleaner and paper towels

Emily

Dry dissecting tray and set it up for the next dissection or put it away.

Nafiesha