Abstract
Despite increasing use of bone graft in Malaysia, there was still lack of data to quantify knowledge level on bone banking among orthopaedic community who are involved in transplantation related work. Therefore, a survey on awareness in tissue banking specifically bone banking, usage and choice of bone grafts was conducted. From 80 respondents, 82.5% were aware about tissue banking however only 12.5% knew of the existence of tissue banks in Malaysia. Femoral head was the bone allograft most often used as a substitute to autograft. Only 34.8% respondents preferred irradiated bone grafts whilst 46.9% preferred nonirradiated, indicating the need to educate the importance of radiation for sterilising tissues. Exhibition was the most preferred medium for awareness programme to disseminate information about bone banking in the orthopaedic community. The professional awareness is necessary to increase the knowledge on the use of bone graft, hence to increase bone transplantation for musculoskeletal surgeries in the country.
Highlights
Bone grafting procedure has already been practised in orthopaedic transplantation for more than a hundred years[1]
Data was collected during the 44th Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA) Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) from 26 to 28 May 2014
Among the 66 respondents who had prior knowledge on tissue banking, 74.2% were aware of the existence of tissue banks in Malaysia namely HUSM Tissue Bank (27.3%), Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) Bone Bank (13.6%) and University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) Bone Bank (9.1%); while 10.6% knew two out of the three banks, 15.2% knew all the three banks and 24.2% did not know any of the banks
Summary
Bone grafting procedure has already been practised in orthopaedic transplantation for more than a hundred years[1]. Data was collected during the 44th Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA) Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) from 26 to 28 May 2014 This is a preliminary survey targeting on orthopaedic community, orthopaedic surgeons, nurses and paramedics who were involved in tissue transplantation. The 21% of respondents who did not answer the question were nurses or paramedics who were not involved in decision making in choosing the grafts. On the question about awareness programme, majority of the respondents (86.3%) were willing to learn more about tissue banking; a few were not interested to know (2.5%) and some were not sure (11.2%).
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