Bone marrow harvesting and storage

A surgical method comprising:

• identifying a set of patients undergoing an existing surgical operation in which a bone of the patient is to be reamed or resected and cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, and bone marrow material removed;
• screening the patients using a set of criteria to ascertain a subset of patients who qualify to donate cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, and bone marrow, wherein a first aspect of the criteria requires the patient to be undergoing an existing operation in the ordinary course of events;
• extracting cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, and bone marrow from the subset of patients using a reamer-irrigator-aspirator;
• and
• instructing a controlling entity for the surgical operation to send the extracted cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, and bone marrow material to a processing, separation, and storage facility so that the material is usable as at least one of:
• (1) an allograft infused with stem cells;
• (2) an autograft with or without stem cells infused;
• and (3) stem cells.