Mephisto
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It's often been said that a hospital is no place to get well. Here's the proof! Let's say you need some human tissue to replace a tendon, or some burned skin, or a ligament . . . where does that tissue come from? You guessed it, a cadaver. But not just ANY old cadaver, it has to be a clean cadaver; free of any diseases that it might pass on to a recepient.
Hospitals asked to return cadaver tissue after patient is infected
POSTED: 2:23 p.m. EST, November 22, 2006
(AP) -- A Minnesota patient apparently was infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery -- a discovery that has led the nation's largest tissue bank to ask 750 hospitals around the country to return 2,400 tendons and other body parts as a precaution.
A hospital reported the bacterial infection in September to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which launched an intense, nationwide effort to search for more cases.
None have been found, but the incident shows the dangers that patients face when receiving such tissue and how dependent they are on the companies supplying it to ensure its safety.
A three-month investigation by The Associated Press, published in June, detailed problems that can arise from cadaver tissue used in more than a million medical procedures each year in the United States, especially knee and back surgeries.
Two scandals involving tissue suppliers have occurred in the last year, and the federal Food and Drug Administration has formed a task force to look for regulatory gaps that threaten safety.
The new case involves a company that many health officials and tissue company executives regard as an industry leader and standard-bearer: Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, or MTF, of Edison, New Jersey. In more than 20 years of supplying 2.7 million pieces of bone, skin and other tissues, this is the company's first reported infection, said a spokeswoman, Cindy Gordon.
In April, MTF noticed an increase in the number of tissues rejected for not passing sterility tests at its Jessup, Pennsylvania, processing plant -- one of two such facilities it operates. Tissues were quarantined and about 150 that failed tests were destroyed, Gordon said.
In September, the CDC notified the company that an unusual infection had been reported in a Minnesota patient who received MTF-supplied tissue during surgery to fix a torn ligament a week earlier. Fluid from the patient's knee joint grew Chryseobacterium meningosepticum -- a germ never previously linked to tissue or organ transplants, said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan of the CDC.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/11/22/body.parts.ap/index.html
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KNOW where your cadaver has been BEFORE accepting a donation!
Hospitals asked to return cadaver tissue after patient is infected
POSTED: 2:23 p.m. EST, November 22, 2006
(AP) -- A Minnesota patient apparently was infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery -- a discovery that has led the nation's largest tissue bank to ask 750 hospitals around the country to return 2,400 tendons and other body parts as a precaution.
A hospital reported the bacterial infection in September to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which launched an intense, nationwide effort to search for more cases.
None have been found, but the incident shows the dangers that patients face when receiving such tissue and how dependent they are on the companies supplying it to ensure its safety.
A three-month investigation by The Associated Press, published in June, detailed problems that can arise from cadaver tissue used in more than a million medical procedures each year in the United States, especially knee and back surgeries.
Two scandals involving tissue suppliers have occurred in the last year, and the federal Food and Drug Administration has formed a task force to look for regulatory gaps that threaten safety.
The new case involves a company that many health officials and tissue company executives regard as an industry leader and standard-bearer: Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, or MTF, of Edison, New Jersey. In more than 20 years of supplying 2.7 million pieces of bone, skin and other tissues, this is the company's first reported infection, said a spokeswoman, Cindy Gordon.
In April, MTF noticed an increase in the number of tissues rejected for not passing sterility tests at its Jessup, Pennsylvania, processing plant -- one of two such facilities it operates. Tissues were quarantined and about 150 that failed tests were destroyed, Gordon said.
In September, the CDC notified the company that an unusual infection had been reported in a Minnesota patient who received MTF-supplied tissue during surgery to fix a torn ligament a week earlier. Fluid from the patient's knee joint grew Chryseobacterium meningosepticum -- a germ never previously linked to tissue or organ transplants, said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan of the CDC.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/11/22/body.parts.ap/index.html
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KNOW where your cadaver has been BEFORE accepting a donation!