Focus on Safety:
OsteoCleanse® May Reduce Infection Rates and Help Hosptials Meet Regulatory Standards
 Concerned about patient safety? Confused about the regulatory requirements for storing and monitoring autograft tissue? With OsteoCleanse® Autograft Cleaning System, LifeNet Health effectively cleans, packages, labels and monitors the tissue, taking the burden off the hospital and creating a "worry-free system."
Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have a cranial flap removed due to trauma, stroke, aneurysm, cancer, epilepsy or other condition. "These patients are already compromised due to the complexity of their injury or illness," says Lindsay Reed, Associate Product Manager, Orthopedics, Joint and Trauma. "It is not optimal to further complicate their condition and risk their progress by replacing cranial flaps that have not been sterilized."
OsteoCleanse creates a paradigm altering solution in the treatment of craniectomies. The replacement of native cranial bone for canioplasty procedures has long been considered the gold standard, but current methods of storing the patient's tissue are fraught with possible complications. LifeNet Health's innovative OsteoCleanse system offers a clinically effective, safe and biocompatible alternative to freezer storage, intra-abdominal placement and costly synthetic materials.
Many healthcare providers don't realize that untested or potentially infected autologous tissue is required to be kept separate from other tissue and there are stringent guidelines on freezer temperatures. With the OsteoCleanse service, hospitals no longer need to accept the risk of storing, disinfecting and monitoring the autografts.
LifeNet Health participated in a pilot study to determine clinical outcomes using OsteoCleanse to salvage contaminated autografts for reimplantation. LifeNet Health and the Department of Neurosurgery at Virginia Commonwealth University published a poster with the conclusions of this pilot study at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons 2008 Annual Meeting. The study concludes that "tissue processing techniques can salvage contaminated autologous cranial flaps. These techniques may ultimately evolve into an alternative to storage in a bone freezer or to intra-abdominal placement."
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