- The Tissue Recovery Technician is responsible for using aseptic techniques to assist and/or to perform the recovery of post- mortem human tissue including bone, connective tissue, skin, heart for heart valves, and/or veins to ensure safe grafts for transplantation
- Obtains patient medical records as required
- Ensures effective and positive communications are maintained with hospital staff, ME/Coroners, Tissue Banks, OPOs, and Funeral homes
- Assists Quality Systems in conduct of periodic internal audits; assists Community Outreach and Hospital Development with projects and training
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Surgical recovery of transplant and research donor tissue
- Review of donor medical charts
- Package and ship eye tissue
- Perform laboratory duties
Obtains adequate blood samples, (pre- and/or post-mortem) for infectious disease testing