aravind.org Eye Care System Madurai : Eye Bank Physicians Training

Name of the Institute : Aravind Eye Care System (aravind.org)
Location : Madurai
Training Offered : Eye Bank Physicians Training

http://www.aravind.org/

Training Offered :
To General Physicians in retrieval of eyes
To Technicians in eye donation practices and eye banking procedures
Observer training to volunteers from other NGOs
To Ophthalmologists in corneal grafting under the NPCB
Participation in various CME programmes at National & International level

Eye Bank Curriculum :
Eye Bank Manager’s Curriculum
Eye banks – Accreditation and Affiliation

Eye Bank Association of India
As a Society
Government of India – Grant in aid (Financial Assistance)
Anatomy of eye
Anatomy of cornea
Corneal blindness

Legislative Aspects :
Human Organ Transplant Act
Registered Medical Practitioner

Organizing an Eye Bank :
Personnel
Physical facilities / infrastructure
List of Equipment & Instruments

Technical Aspect :
Techniques involved in eye processing
Knowledge on Storage Medium
Instruments, equipment purchase and maintenance
Instruments and Reagents
Infection control and safety measures
Waste Disposal

Eye Bank Technician’s Curriculum :
Basic Knowledge on: Eye banks – Accreditation and Affiliation
Eye Bank Association of India
As a Society
Government of India – Grant in aid (Financial Assistance)

Knowledge on: Legislative Aspects :
Human Organ Transplant Act
Registered Medical Practitioner

Organizing an Eye Bank :
Physical facilities
List of Equipment & Instruments
Cleaning and maintenance of equipment and instruments

Enucleation of donor eyes :
Enucleation at home prep
Preparing & draping the donor
Enucleation procedure
Aseptic techniques in eye banking

Processing of corneas :
Corneal excision
Serology
Specular microscopy
Indications for corneal transplantation
Ocular microbiology

Equipment maintenance and cleaning :
Eye bank laboratory maintenance
Instruments and Reagents
Infection control and safety
Waste disposal

Promotional Activities – Understand the concept of:
Networking with voluntary organizations
Eye Donation awareness programmes

Preparation of labels :
Method and importance of labelling the tissues
Packing and transportation of donor corneas
Eye donation counselling

Documentation :
Understand the forms
Maintain manual & digital data
Statistics generation for reports and Research
Maintenance of registers (Stock register etc.)

Quality Control :
Infection control quality assurance
Medical standards in eye banking
Assessment of donor cornea for surgical use
Microbiology of donor corneas
Aseptic measures in eye banking
Disease transmission
Medical contraindications
Sterilization
Temperature recording

Grief Counseling – Curriculum :
Magnitude of corneal blindness
Anatomy of eye & cornea
Diseases causing corneal blindness
Eye bank function
Eye donation facts
Hospital Corneal Retrieval Program (HCRP)
Grief Counselling
Community participation in eye banking
Eye donation counseling
Family consent for eye donation
Pledging of eyes
Documentation – donor calls / enucleation calls
Eye Donation awareness programs
Medical contraindications to eye retrieval

Duration of training :
Eye Bank Physicians Training (NPCB) – 2 months (includes keratoplasty)
Eye Bank Manager Training – 1 week
Eye Bank Technician Training – 1 month
Eye Bank Grief Counsellor / social worker training – 10 Days
Custom Designed programmes can be planned as required.

More than 100 general physicians from various parts of Tamilnadu are trained in the enucleation of the donor eye. Over 50 paramedics were trained in assisting for enucleation and other preservation techniques. About 40 social workers / volunteers were trained in grief counseling.

Contact us :
Aravind Eye Hospital [Madurai]
1, Anna Nagar,
Madurai – 625 020, Tamilnadu, India