CTBS Vocabulary

CTBS Vocabulary AAMI - answerAssociation for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation ACCIDENT - answerAny occurrence, not associated with a deviation from Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), standards, or applicable laws and regulations, during donor screening or testing, or tissue recovery or collection, processing, quarantining, labeling, storage, distribution, or dispensing that may affect the performance, biocompatibility, or freedom from transmissible pathogens of the tissue or the ability to trace tissue to the donor. ADEQUATE INFORMATION - answerInformation sufficient for the Donor, the Authorizing Person or the Living Donor to make a voluntary decision regarding the gift of tissues for transplantation, therapy, research and/or education. The parameters of what constitutes Adequate Information must include ''Core Elements'' contained in Standard D2.400 or D3.400, and such additional information as the Donor, Authorizing Person, or Living Donor requests or which the Donation Coordinator reasonably believes the Donor, Authorizing Person or Living Donor should know. When the Donor is authorizing the gift of tissue, publicly available information concerning the scope and use of the gift shall be deemed Adequate Information. ADVERSE OUTCOME - answerAn undesirable effect or untoward complication in a recipient consequent to or reasonably related to tissue transplantation. ALLOGENEIC - answerused as an adjective to modify donation, tissue, donor or recipient when transplantation is intended for a genetically different person. ALLOGRAFT - answerTissue intended for transplantation into another individual of the same species. ANONYMOUS DONOR - answerA reproductive donor of cells or tissue whose identity is unknown to the recipient. ANSI - answerAmerican National Standards Institute AORN - answerAssociation of PeriOperative Registered Nurses AORTOILIAC GRAFT (C) - answerThe distal segment of the abdominal aorta including the bifurcation and proximal segments of both the left and right common iliac arteries. ART - answerAssisted Reproductive Technology—All clinical treatments and laboratory procedures that include the handling of both human oocytes and sperm, or embryos, with the intent of establishing a pregnancy. ARTERIAL GRAFT - answerA segment of peripheral artery that is recovered, processed and preserved. ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION (R) - answerThe placement of semen within the reproductive tract of