Performance of cooling materials and their composites in maintaining freezing temperature during irradiation and transportation of bone allografts

• Main Authors: Ramalingam, Saravana, Samsuddin, Sharifah Mazni, Yusof, Norimah, Mohd, Suhaili, Hanafi, Nurhafizatul Nadia, Ng, Wuey Min, Mansor, Azura
• Format: Article
• Published: SAGE Publications (UK and US) 2018
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20935/; https://doi.org/10.1177/2309499018770906

Purpose: Bone allografts supplied by University Malaya Medical Centre Bone Bank are sterilized by gamma radiation at 25 kGy in dry ice (DI) to minimize radiation effects. Use of cheaper and easily available cooling materials, gel ice (GI) and ice pack (IP), was explored. Composites of DI and GI were...