The importance of ethic in the field of human tissue banking

A tissue bank is accountable before the community in fulfilling the expectations of tissue donors, their families and recipients. The expected output from the altruistic donation is that safe and high quality human tissue grafts will be provided for the medical treatment of patients. Thus, undertaki...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Cell and tissue banking 2012-03, Vol.13 (1), p.103-117
Main Authors: Morales Pedraza, Jorge, Herson, Marisa Roma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abuse
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Bone marrow, stem cells transplantation. Graft versus host reaction
Cell Biology
Codes of Ethics
Donors
Ethics
Ethics Committees
Health
Humans
Informed Consent
Life Sciences
Medical ethics
Medical sciences
Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
Tissue Banks - ethics
Tissue Donors - ethics
Tissue engineering
Transfusions. Complications. Transfusion reactions. Cell and gene therapy
Transplant Surgery
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A tissue bank is accountable before the community in fulfilling the expectations of tissue donors, their families and recipients. The expected output from the altruistic donation is that safe and high quality human tissue grafts will be provided for the medical treatment of patients. Thus, undertakings of tissue banks have to be not only authorised and audited by national competent health care authorities, but also comply with a strong ethical code, a code of practices and ethical principles. Ethical practice in the field of tissue banking requires the setting of principles, the identification of possible deviations and the establishment of mechanisms that will detect and hinder abuses that may occur during the procurement, processing and distribution of human tissues for transplantation. The opinions and suggestions manifested by the authors in this paper may not be necessarily a reflection of those within the institutions or community they are linked to.
ISSN:1389-9333
1573-6814
DOI:10.1007/s10561-010-9232-2