Clinical skin banking: II. Stimulating sources for organ donation.
Donor source stimulation for a regional skin bank is discussed, emphasizing the importance of coordination with other organ donor programs, centralization of a public information and donor identifying communication system, exploitation of regional legislative precedents which facilitate organ donation, and finally, identification of health professional and related groups with a common interest in matters associated with rational planning for the time of death. The specific problem associated with skin donation, namely, a sensitive description of the technical details of skin harvest, is also considered.
D003142:Communication; D006281:Health Occupations; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous