Tissue and Cell Donation: An Essential Guide
by Editor: Ruth M. Warwick (National Blood Service); Editor: Deirdre Fehily (National Transport Center, Italy); Editor: Scott A. Brubaker (American Association of Tissue Banks); Editor: Ted Eastlund (University of Minnesota Medical School); ForewordFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-02-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This is the guide to tissue and cell donation that you have been waiting for. Policies and practices reviewed using specific donor case histories as examples Multidisciplinary, multi-national team of editors and contributors, with expertise in ethics, consent, transplantation, microbiology and tissue and cell banking Provides a guide to easier and safer practice in referrals, tissue procurement, cord blood collection and decision making in generalThis unique book explores a range of issues related to the human impact of tissue and cell donation programmes around the world. It addresses the areas that are of key concern and have profound implications for the donors, recipients and healthcare professionals involved. Focusing on tissue, assisted reproduction and hematopoietic stem cells this book is essential reading for all those working in the field of human transplant donation and those who regulate this field.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Histories of Tissue Banking | |
| Recruitment for Tissue Donation | |
| The Donor Family Dimension of Tissue and Cell Donation | |
| Consent | |
| Gathering Donor History: Ensuring Safe Tissues for Transplant | |
| The Role of Testing in Determining Suitability of Donors and Tissues | |
| The Management of Donor Test Results | |
| Case Studies from Diverse Cultural, Religious, and Economic Situations | |
| Facilitating Donation - The Role of Key Stakeholders: The Medical Examiner, the Coroner, the Hospital Pathologist, and the Funeral Director | |
| Staff Development and Support in Roles Associated with Deceased Donation | |
| Ethical Issues in Unrelated Cord Blood and Bone Marrow Donation | |
| Ethical and Consent Issues in the Reproductive Setting: The Case of Egg, Sperm, and Embryo Donation | |
| Clinical Governance in Cell and Tissue Banking | |
| Index | |
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