FROM HAND TO HAND

Until a human can receive new tissue, it requires many individual steps. It is important, that minimal time passes between the removal, the transport, and the processing and up to the documentation and the insertion of the tissue. It is fascinating how these different institutions cooperate so that the tissue transplant finds its new home within a patient. On this journey, it passes from one hand to another.

This project was created in cooperation with the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gewebetransplantation“ (DGFG). The stories and information about the topic of tissue donation were visualized by seven students from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover. The result is a magazine which will be distributed to hospitals in Germany and a poster exhibition which will take place in several public buildings all over Germany.

Here you can see the project on the DGFG website.

Prof. Dr. med. Christian Krettek has been director of the clinic for trauma surgery at the Medical University of Hanover since 2000 and is responsible for the donation of bones, cartilages and sinews.
Dr. med. Erik Chankiewitz has been the Clinical Director of the Eye Clinic at Klinikum Bremen-Mitte since 2016. His range of treatment covers all areas of ophthalmology and he transplants up to 459 corneal donations per year.
Jana Richter has worked for the DGFG since May 2015. Previously she worked as a coordinator of tissue donation. As a specialist for occupational safety, she now inspects the individual DGFG locations in Germany for potential risks and safety.
Sonja Tietz has been the Medical Regional Manager at the DGFG since 2010 and is, therefore, responsible for nine federal states.
Dr. Grit Haberkern is a coordinator of tissue donation at Klinikum Bremen-Mitte. Her tasks include, among others, the removal of tissue donations in Pathology Department.
Anna Kreyenhop has been the deputy medical regional manager since 2007 and supports the coordinators at Klinikum Bremen-Mitte.
Sandro Taumer has been working as a section and preparation assistant at the Helios Clinic Schwerin since 2014. In some cases, he also removes the eyes commissioned by the DGFG.
Heike Brückmann has been working as an MTLA of the cornea bank in the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Rostock since 2015.
Felix Tietz Henne has been working as a driver for the DGFG since 2012 and transports the tissue transplants by car from the place of removal to the processing tissue banks.
Dana Alms is a trained biologist and surgery nurse and has been working as a coordinator of tissue donation at the University Hospital Rostock since 2017.