EYE BANKING

INTRODUCTION
◦ It is a non-profit community organization which deals with the collection ,
storage ,,and distribution of cornea for the purpose of corneal grafting ,
research, and supply of the other eye tissues for the other purposes.

◦ Eye bank is an organization managed by a board of directors , eye bank

manager and technician with the objective of increasing the quantity and
quality of eye tissue
 OBJECTIVES OF AN EYE BANK
◦ Collection of donor eyes
◦ Process and storage of donor cornea
◦ Distribution and utilization of the highest quality of donor tissue for
transplantation
◦ To promote public education relation system
◦ To promote hospital cornea retrieval programme to improve collection of
donor eyes from hospital detail
◦ Provide and process eye tissue for teachinng or research
 FUNCTIONS

TISSUE PUBLIC
RESEARCH
HARVESTING AWARNESS

TISSUE TISSUE TISSUE

EVALUVATION PRESERVATION DISTRIBUTION
WORKING OF EYE BANK
ORGANISATION OF EYE BANK
◦ Structure: Medical and administrative
◦ Components of eye bank
Eye information center
Eye collection center
Eye bank proper
EYE INFORMAATION CENTER
(EIC)
◦ Create awareness
◦ Issues eye donation card to the pledger
◦ Handover the signed pledge forms to the eye bank
◦ Medical social worker
EYE COLLECTION CENTER
◦ Receives call for eye collection
◦ Collects the eye
◦ Informs the eye bank
◦ Dispatch the eye tissue to the bank
◦ Issues an appreciation letter to the decreased family
HCRP( Hospital Corneal Retrieval
Programme)
◦An established team that aims at retrieval
of corneal tissue from eligible and willing
donors after death
STEPS OF EYE DONATION

1- DONOR 2-TISSUE 3-CORNEAL

SELECTION RETRIEVAL EXAMINATION

4-TISSUE
5-STORAGE OF
TRANSPORTATIO 6-DISTRIBUTION
CORNEAL TISSUE
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WHO CAN DONATE?
◦ Anybody can donate
◦ No age bar But 70 years of age is mostly avoided
◦ Lower limit : 2yrs to prevent myopic shift after keratoplasty
 WHO CANNOT DONATE?
◦ SYSTEMIC ◦ OCULAR

◦ AIDS
◦ Conjunctivitis
◦ Rabies
◦ Uvetis
◦ Active viral hepatitis
◦ intrinsic eye disease
◦ Leukemia
◦ Retro blastoma
◦ Congenital rubella
◦ Viri ties
◦ Active septicemia
◦ retinitis
◦ Lymphoma
◦ congenital abnormalities
◦ Lymphosarcoma
CORNEOSCLERAL BUTTON
EXCISION
ENUCLEATION
ROLE OF NURSE IN EYE BANK
◦ Nurses are often the coordinator for the procurement process with four primary roles
◦ Identification of potential organ donor
◦ Obtaining consent and supporting family
◦ Successful retrieval of the organ
◦ Maintaining current knowledge and skills