What are the advantages of Tissue Bank?
• Provides improved patient care through tissue transplantation. • Eliminates the trauma and morbidity associated with secondary surgical procedures used to harvest autografts (grafts from the recipient itself) which includes additional operation to harvest the graft, donor site pain, increased blood loss, increased operating time and limited graft quantity. • Reduces hospital and medical costs. • Avoids sacrifice of the patient’s normal structures. • Provides in unlimited quantity any shape and size of allografts. Who can be a donor to the Tissue bank? The bone tissue is procured under sterile conditions in the operation theatre from patients who undergo total knee and hip joint replacements, Hemiarthroplasty, amputations due to or non salvageable vascular injuries and open injuries with Ganga open injury score above 14, after obtaining informed consent. Soon after procurement all the bone tissues are transferred to Deep freezer which maintains the temperature at -80degrees. How is th
