BONE MARROW HARVESTING AND STORAGE

摘要

Methods of extracting bone and/or cellular material from a patient for possible use in a later surgical procedure, which involves that patient or even a different patient, are provided. An embodiment of the method generally comprises extracting bone and/or cellular material from a patient undergoing a routine surgical procedure, saving the material, and then sending it to a storage, separation, and processing facility (e.g., a “biobank”) for use in a later surgical procedure involving that patient, or a different patient. The material may be cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, or bone marrow. The extracted bone and/or cellular material can be processed at the biobank and used in a multitude of different medical procedures (e.g., as an allograft infused with stem cells for use in a fusion procedure).

主权项

1. A method of harvesting and processing bone and/or cellular material comprising:
reaming bone with a tool to extract cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, and/or bone marrow material during an orthopedic procedure; transferring the extracted material to a container fluidly connected with the tool; sending the extracted material to a facility; and processing, separating, and/or storing the extracted material at the facility so that the material is usable as at least one of: (1) an allograft infused with stem cells; (2) an autograft with or without stem cells infused; and (3) stem cells, wherein the surgical procedure is a procedure undertaken by the patient in the ordinary course of events and is not a surgery dedicated predominantly to extracting the cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, and/or bone marrow material.