SouthMetro Hospital Summary Draft, initial idea,

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Dont Forget Tissue!
Annette Gonzalez, MBA/HCM, CTBS Tissue
Hospital Services Specialist
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Organs That May Be Donated
ORGANS

• Kidneys
• Liver
• Heart
• Lung
• Pancreas
• Small Intestine

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Tissues That May Be Donated
TISSUES
Corneas/Eyes Skin Heart Valves Bone Tendons Blood
Vessels
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Tissue Donation Circumstances

• Brain Death 5
• Cardiac Death 95
• Tissue donation can occur in both
• Criteria differs than an organ donor
• Age up to 95 years old
• Cancer

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Making a Difference

• Offers more families opportunity to donate
• One tissue donor can affect more than 50
  people
• Most recipients not aware they are Tissue
  transplant recipients

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Organ Donation Process

• Recovery in hospital Operating Room
• Transplant Center Surgeons
• Transplantation within hours

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Tissue Donation Process

• Recovery in hospital OR, Morgue, Coroner suite,
  Funeral Homes (Aseptic)
• OneLegacy Tissue Surgical Recovery Technicians
• Transplantation after months of testing and
  processing

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• Bone Video Clip

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Bone recipient
Spinal curvature
After bone grafts
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Bone

• Reconstructive surgeries
• bone cysts, trauma and tumors
• Spinal fusions
• spine/disc and scoliosis repair
• Hip replacements
• Implant prosthetic devices

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Engineered Grafts
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Demineralized Bone

• Consists of bone matrix and a carrier such as
  glycerol, collagen, etc.

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Femur Transplant
Post-op
Six weeks
Eight weeks
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Skin

• Increases burn survival from 17 to 77
• Promotes healing
• Temporary coverage
• Protects against
• fluid loss
• Infection
• Decreases pain

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Full Thickness Burn
2.5 years post-op (Courtesy Dr. Voorhees)
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Conjoined Twins
Kendra Deene Maliyah Mae Before Surgery
Courtesy of MTF
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Kendra Deene Maliyah Mae

• Shared a pelvis, bladder, large intestine, a
  fused liver and one kidney
• 26 hour operation in 2006
• Donated skin was used to separate the twins
• Covered the organs
• Replaced missing fascia before closing the outer
  skin

Courtesy of MTF
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Ruptured Omphalocele
Courtesy Dr. Schrupp
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Full Thickness Skin Transplant
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Wound Closure
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Life Enhancing Facial Suspension
Hemi-facial paralysis
Reestablishment of facial symmetry with an
acellular dermal sling
(Courtesy Dr. Frodel)
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Heart Valves/Pericardium

• Replace defective heart valves
• Better valve pressure than porcine or mechanical
  valves
• No need for anti-coagulation drugs
• Treatment of choice for pediatrics women of
  childbearing age

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Connective Tissue

• Tendons and Ligaments
• Knee and other joint injuries
• Sports injuries ACL/PCL
• Achilles tendon repair
• Fascia
• Uterine Bladder slings
• Hernias

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Vascular Grafts

• Coronary bypass surgery
• Restores blood flow
• Prevents amputation
• Limb Salvage of 72
• after 48 months

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Amputation Overview

• Postoperative Complications
• Pain
• Infection
• Deep Vein Thrombosis
• Wound Healing
• Mortality
• As high as 67 at 32 months

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The Gift of Sight
A precious gift
A world of darkness
transplanted
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A future without limits
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• Cornea Video Clip

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Donation Connection

• Conjoined twin story from Donation Connection
• Monthly tissue newsletter created by MTF
  (Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation)
• Ambassadors will receive MTFs Donation
  Connection monthly in the Ambassador Dispatch

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Conclusion

• DONT FORGET TISSUE!!
• As Ambassadors of Donation, we promote Organ and
  Tissue donation
• Donation is donation, especially to donating
  families
• OneLegacy Tissue Specialists to serve you!