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Quality control in tissue banking—Ensuring the safety of allograft tissues
Author(s) -
Humphries Linda K.,
Mansavage Vicki L.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)63916-1
Subject(s) - control (management) , quality (philosophy) , tissue bank , recall , medicine , health care , business , operations management , surgery , psychology , computer science , engineering , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , cognitive psychology
• DESPITE FEDERAL REGULATIONS for tissue‐banking practices, inadequate quality control led to the largest allograft tissue recall in history in October 2005. • THE RECALL INCLUDED all allograft tissues obtained from 761 donors and distributed by five tissue banks. Many of these tissues already had been implanted and were unrecoverable. • THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES the many tissue‐banking industry variables, including donor selection and testing and tissue recovery, processing, and preservation. • QUESTIONS THAT HEALTH CARE providers can ask to determine which tissue banks' quality control measures best ensure the safety of the allografts they provide also are included. AORN J 84 (September 2006) 386–398 © AORN, Inc, 2006.