The impact of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) program on radiation and tissue banking in Cuba
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The impact of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) program on radiation and tissue banking in Cuba Jorge Morales Pedraza Æ Eddy O. Sa´nchez Noda Æ Ramo´n Lorenzo Rodrı´guez Cardona Æ Isabel Otero
Received: 2 June 2008 / Accepted: 2 June 2008 / Published online: 25 June 2008 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Abstract The first multi-tissue bank was founded at Havana in 1958. At that time, freeze-drying was used at the bank as a method of preserving, as well as Cobalt 60 irradiation to sterilise bone tissue, heart valves and others. The impact of the IAEA program in tissue banking activities in Cuba can be summarised as follows: (a) Increase in the production of sterilised tissues using ionising radiation (bone, pig skin and amnion) for medical treatment in the tissue bank of the Hospital Frank Pais; (b) increase of the quality of the productions of bone tissues, pig skin and amnion; (c) reduction in the import of tissues by
increasing the local production of tissues; (d) sustainability in the number of donors through the implementation of a public and professional awareness campaign; (e) training of six persons in the Regional Training Centre of Buenos Aires; (f) qualification of one person in the administration of a tissue bank and in the implementation of a Quality System. The amount of tissues produced and sterilised using the ionising radiation techniques in the established banks was 25,510 units. The amount of patients treated with sterilised tissues produced by the established banks was 2,448. Keywords
J. Morales Pedraza (&) Calle 20 # 216 altos entre 15 y 17 Vedado, Plaza, La Habana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] E. O. Sa´nchez Noda ORTOP Tissue Bank, Frank Paı´s Orthopaedic Complex Avenue 51 No. 19603, e/190 y 202, La Lisa, Habana, Cuba e-mail: [email protected] R. L. Rodrı´guez Cardona Nuclear Energy Agency and Advanced Technologies, 20 Street, No. 4109, Playa, Havana, Cuba e-mail: [email protected] I. Otero Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnolo´gicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba e-mail: [email protected]
Cuba IAEA Tissue banking
The early period The first multi-tissue bank was founded at Havana in 1958. At that time, freeze-drying was used at the bank as a method of preserving, as well as Cobalt 60 irradiation to sterilise bone tissue, hard valves, among others (Sanchez Noda et al. 2000). The legal frame for the donations of organs and tissue in Cuba is established by the ‘‘Public Health Law’’, from 1983. In its Items 41 and 42, it establishes that: ‘‘It is an action of higher human consciousness and involves the whole State and the social organisations to take part in those works to develop organ and tissue procurement, as well as transplants’’.
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The Statutes of the Public Health Law from 1988 establishes the voluntary and free character and that consent should be informed through signature and stamp validation of this action. It expresses that this is a revocable
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