Bone banking. A cost effective method for establishing a community hospital bone bank.
Both cost effectiveness and safety can be realized in the operation of a community bone bank by adoption of the following measures: deep freezing, rather than freeze drying; allogenic bone is collected from femoral heads excised from total hip arthroplasties; and careful donor and graft selection controls ensure an allograft free of disease which can be transmitted to the recipient. Two-year follow-up data reveal no complications or infections from implantation of 101 allografts.
D016025:Bone Transplantation; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005615:Freezing; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D013242:Sterilization; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000191:economics*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014021:Tissue Preservation / Q000379:methods