Bone banks are necessary to provide biological material for a series of orthopedic procedures. The growing need for musculoskeletal tissues for transplantation is due to the development of new surgical techniques, and has made it so that a variety of services were willing to have their own source of tissue for transplantation. To increase the safety of transplanted tissues, standards for the operation of banks were imposed by the government, which limited the number of authorized institutions. The good performance of a bone bank depends on strict control of all stages, from the formation of well-trained teams for capturing, for donor selection, for conducting various tests on the tissues obtained, and by the strict control of the processing techniques used. The combination of these factors makes it so that the scope of use and the number of recipient patients increases, the incidence of tissue contamination is statistically insignificant, and that there is traceability between donors and receptors. This paper describes the technical considerations regarding the functioning of a bank, use of grafts and orthopedic applications, as well as ethical aspects and the main obstacles encountered.
Bone Banks; Allograft; Bone Transplantation; Orthopedic Surgery
