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BONE BANKING: FROM TAMWORTH BASE HOSPITAL TO ROYAL NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
O'Sullivan James P.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1993.tb00059.x
Subject(s) - medicine , femoral bone , surgery , general surgery , femur
During the first 6 months of 1992, orthopaedic surgeons at Tamworth Base Hospital were involved in a feasibility study using allograft bone and donating femoral heads to Royal Newcastle Hospital Bone Bank. The two hospitals being separated by 300 km meant that storage, packaging and transportation had to be refined in order to ensure sterility and safe delivery of the bone. This study was undertaken because of the growing need for allograft bone in revision hip arthroplasty at Tamworth Base Hospital. This need for allograft bone has been expressed by other country based orthopaedic surgeons and will only increase during the next few years as primary hip prostheses age and revision hip surgery continues to advance.