Hold Onto Your Butts, Kids...
... and your eyes, bone, ligaments and other body bits.
According to the latest off the AP Wire, surgeries that use body parts from cadavers may pose some serious risks. For example, 23-year-old Brian Lykins had elective knee surgery, replacing his cartilage with donated tissue. Within four days, Brian was dead from infection because ---despite reassurance from doctors that the procedure was perfectly safe --- no one told the Lykins that the supposedly disinfected tissue was allowed to sit unrefrigerated for 19 hours and came from a corpse that had been rejected from two other donor banks.
Yet despite these breaches in tissue etiquette, not a single federal rule was broken because few rules exist. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has oversight of the organ donation industry, lacks the staff and legislation to thoroughly do its job.
So, until more oversight exists (and you can help by lobbying your congress persons for change), better hold on to what you've got.
According to the latest off the AP Wire, surgeries that use body parts from cadavers may pose some serious risks. For example, 23-year-old Brian Lykins had elective knee surgery, replacing his cartilage with donated tissue. Within four days, Brian was dead from infection because ---despite reassurance from doctors that the procedure was perfectly safe --- no one told the Lykins that the supposedly disinfected tissue was allowed to sit unrefrigerated for 19 hours and came from a corpse that had been rejected from two other donor banks.
Yet despite these breaches in tissue etiquette, not a single federal rule was broken because few rules exist. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has oversight of the organ donation industry, lacks the staff and legislation to thoroughly do its job.
So, until more oversight exists (and you can help by lobbying your congress persons for change), better hold on to what you've got.
posted by Delhui at 1:50 PM
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