Table 1.

Overview of Canadian eye and tissue banking activity

Total Canadian activity	2013	2014	2015	% Change 2014–2015
Deaths referred to be assessed for donation potential	41,594	45,154	46,381	2.7
Total deceased donors recovered	4383	4510	4473	−0.8
Donors where ocular tissue was recovered	4146	4248	4292	+1.0
Deceased donors where bone, cardiac and or skin was retrieved	772	627	590	−5.9
Surgical bone donors	700	669	549	−17.9
Corneas produced and released for transplant	4004	4344	4099	−5.6
Corneas transplanted—keratoplasty	3284	3259	3097	−5.0
Cornea yield: number of corneas processed/released per ocular donor	0.97	1.02	0.96	−5.9
Total bone, skin and cardiac grafts processed and released into inventory in deceased donors	11,297	9709	9856	+1.5
Total non-ocular grafts distributed to transplantation (bone, skin, cardiac, surgical bone, amnion grafts)	12,605	11,740	12,119	+3.2
Total all eye and tissue grafts processed and released to inventory (deceased and living donors: ocular, bone, skin, cardiac, surgical bone, amnion)	17,602	16,570	16,241	−2.0