Safety
SureChip & SureBlock is
produced in FDA-approved facility and only uses donor tissue from AATB-accredited
tissue banks in it’s products. Individual donor tissue is not mixed
with tissue from other donors and the final product is sterilized to ensure
patient safety.
Preparations for use
- To rehydrate freeze-dried
tissue in an acceptable sterile irrigant (i.e. normal saline or Lactated
Ringer Solution) is common but not mandatory prior to use. Bone chips
do not necessarily need to be rehydrated.
- The decision to rehydrate
the freeze dried cancellous bone prior to transplantation should be
based upon the surgeon’s preference.
- To increase the biological
properties of the implant, the patient’s own blood or bone marrow
can be used to rehydrate the freeze-dried tissue.
- Optimal performance is
achieved when rehydration is done at least 30 minutes prior to the operation.
- To process the rehydration,
a transfer of the allograft from the plastic tray of the package to
a sterile container is necessary.
- The allograft tissue can
be cut to the preferred size after rehydration.
Indication
There are different indications
that are suitable for the use of allograft chips and blocks:
- Implication grafting during
femoral or acetabular revisions
- Filling of bone defects
- Tibia plateau impression
fractures
- Arthroplasty and revision
arthroplasty
- Posterior spinal fusions
The offered allograft tissue
acts as bone void (defect) filler, as structural graft, and is suited
for trauma, tumor resection and hip and knee revisions. Even though allograft
chips and blocks provide structural support to the bony defect, these
implants are not indicated for use in load bearing indications, unless
used in conjunction with appropriate asteosynthesis fixation. Depending
on the size, voids of undefined geometric shape can be filled with chips.
Voids with defined geometric shape can be filled with blocks.