BST is a public agency under the Catalan Ministery of Health. Its mission is to guarantee the supply and proper use of human blood and tissues in Catalonia, following applicable regulation (Directive 2004/23/EC 2004 ; Commission directive 2006 /17/EC; Commission Directive 2006 /86/EC) and good practices (EDQM; Council of Europe 2019 ).
The BTB is subjected to Spanish Legislation (RD-L 9/2014 2014 ) and European Directives on the use of tissues and cells of human origin for therapeutic purposes (EU 2004/23/EC). The BTB’s quality standards are in accordance with European Directives 2006/17/EC and 2006/86/EC, as well as the Guide to the Quality and Safety of Tissues and Cells for Human application (EDQM, 4th Ed.).
The BTB is a multi-tissue bank with two main working areas. On one hand, there is a DC, which is responsible of (1) complete donor screening (attending potential donor calls from any hospital in Catalonia or Spain, consent interviews with the families, judicial consent if applies and donor testing), (2) management of the retrieval teams, and (3) tissue procurement. On the other hand, there is a tissue establishment (TE), which is responsible for preparing, evaluating, storing and distributing tissues for transplantation.
DC is composed by medical and nursing staff and also includes a multi-tissue retrieval team, which is always composed by a doctor (team leader) and two technician that can be nurses or professionals with other qualifications in the health field. In the TE, the people responsible for the preparation and cryopreservation of CV tissue are technicians specialised in tissue dissection and evaluation (CV but also skin, amniotic membrane, ocular and muskulosqueletal tissue); in addition, there is also a research team. The BTB team also includes quality assurance and quality control staff. Finally, in the TE there is a tissue allocation team in charge of receiving all the requests from transplant centres as well as tissue shipment arrangements. To guaranty process traceability it is required an implant confirmation form and the information of the final use of the tissue.
The BTB is subjected to Spanish Legislation (RD-L 9/2014 2014 ) and European Directives on the use of tissues and cells of human origin for therapeutic purposes (EU 2004/23/EC). The BTB’s quality standards are in accordance with European Directives 2006/17/EC and 2006/86/EC, as well as the Guide to the Quality and Safety of Tissues and Cells for Human application (EDQM, 4th Ed.).
The BTB is a multi-tissue bank with two main working areas. On one hand, there is a DC, which is responsible of (1) complete donor screening (attending potential donor calls from any hospital in Catalonia or Spain, consent interviews with the families, judicial consent if applies and donor testing), (2) management of the retrieval teams, and (3) tissue procurement. On the other hand, there is a tissue establishment (TE), which is responsible for preparing, evaluating, storing and distributing tissues for transplantation.
DC is composed by medical and nursing staff and also includes a multi-tissue retrieval team, which is always composed by a doctor (team leader) and two technician that can be nurses or professionals with other qualifications in the health field. In the TE, the people responsible for the preparation and cryopreservation of CV tissue are technicians specialised in tissue dissection and evaluation (CV but also skin, amniotic membrane, ocular and muskulosqueletal tissue); in addition, there is also a research team. The BTB team also includes quality assurance and quality control staff. Finally, in the TE there is a tissue allocation team in charge of receiving all the requests from transplant centres as well as tissue shipment arrangements. To guaranty process traceability it is required an implant confirmation form and the information of the final use of the tissue.
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