Sancheti Hospital’s bone bank enhances Orthopaedics care for trauma patients

In a significant advancement in Orthopaedics care, Pune based Sancheti Hospital’s bone bank is now utilising bone bank harvesting, enhancing the quality of care, especially for trauma patients and patients with certain bone defects.

While addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Dr Parag Sancheti, CMD of Sancheti Hospitals, said that this initiative not only promotes optimal use of surgical byproducts but also addresses the requirement of bone graft materials. In certain cases, this can also help in eliminating the use of extra metal implants, he informed and said the entire procedure ensures that there is a minimal rejection.

This programme is a significant milestone in Orthopaedics in Pune and will demonstrate to be a life-enhancing initiative for patients, he said. Explaining the concept of Bone Bank, Dr Pramod Bhilare, Spine surgeon and Incharge of Bone Bank, said that the bone bank acquires bones from healthy donors after screening them through stringent criteria, which are stored and used for recipients in need, somewhat similar in function to the blood bank.

The donors are generally those undergoing surgeries for hip or knee joints in conditions like hip arthritis, avascular necrosis and neck of femur fractures. The bones harvested from patients go through several tests before being frozen for six months, he added.

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