Recover not Harvest
This surgical instrument is used for cutting out circular sections.
What is Trephine?
These are the two types of tissue placement.
What is transplant and research?
Through hospital development, this profession is taught about eye donation.
What is nurses?
This oscillates a microkeratome blade from left to right using compressed gas from a control unit.
What is a turbine?
To assure that functions are performed to specific requirements of a company’s operations.
What is Quality Assurance?
This examination should be performed after the physical examination of the donor's body.
What is a Penlight Examination?
The priority list, in order or importance, when it comes to placing tissues.
What is local, domestic, and international.
This is the current waiting period for a cornea transplant.
What is no wait?
A non-invasive imaging device that uses light waves to create detailed, cross-sectional images of the retina and other structures in the eye.
What is an OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography)?
A mistake represented by a single line, date of correction, and initials.
What is an Error Correction?
One of our biggest recovery partners, formerly known as Community Tissue Services.
Who is Solvita?
The four steps, in order, to make offers to eye banks/Vision Share?
What is click on inventory, click the tissue, click the offer tab, create offer.
This percentage of cornea transplants are successful.
What is 97%?
From rim to rim this is the minimum diameter of a cornea that can be still utilized for DSAEK?
What is 16 millimeters?
A thorough examination and overview of facilities, operations, and paperwork.
What is an Audit?
These surfaces are not acceptable as the surgical table for corneal excision recovery.
What is Porous?
The three steps in setting up a request after the tissue has been accepted?
What is click on inventory, click on the tissue, click on the request.
These two forms of cancer are considered rule outs for ocular donation.
What is Leukemia and Lymphoma?
The minimum length processed posterior part for sclera needs to be quarantined before it can be released for transplant.
What is 5 days?
"SOP" stands for this.
What is Standard Operating Procedure?
A ring of this size of the attached conjunctiva must remain attached to the limbus during a KLAL recovery.
What is 5-6 mm?
A wonderful member of our distribution team says this is the hardest part of the job.
What is coordinating flights?
This is the most important step is eye care for ventilated patients and deceased donors.
What is closing the eyes?
When performing a cut for a DSAEK the Nitrogen vacuum pump must be tested. This is the millimeters of mercury is acceptable.
What is Less than 200 mmHg?
"CAPA" Stands for this.
What is Corrective Action and Preventative Action?