Skin Grafting

A TRANSPLANT OF EITHER YOUR OWN, SOMEONE ELSE’S,OR EVEN ARTIFICIAL SKIN

BY TIM GOBRECHT SAM MCCUTCHIN AND MATT MCGEEHAN

Pre-skin graft

OPEN WOUND

Basic Information

Part of Integumentary System

Surrounds Entire Body

Protects Body, Regulates Temperature, and Gives Sense of Touch

StatisticsMore than 5,000 transplants per year

Failure of a skin graft rarely happens, as long as anti-rejection drugs, such as Cyclosporin A or Prograf, are applied

4 Million suffer from non-healing wounds a year

Over 15,000 die from 3rd Degree burns and burn related infections from lack of skin graft

Why Should I Get a Skin Graft?

You have a third-degree burn

You have a wound that won’t heal

You just had surgery

YOU MAY NEED A SKIN GRAFT IF:

Can I Donate Skin?

NOT IF YOU HAVE SKIN DISEASE

BUT MOST SKIN TRANSPLANTS ARE DONE WITHEITHER ARTIFICIAL SKIN, PIG SKIN, OR THE SKIN

OF THE DONOR THEMSELVES (AUTOGRAPH)

ALMOST ANYONE CAN RECEIVE A SKIN GRAFT,

AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT REACT TO THEANESTHETICS USED FOR SURGERY

The ProcedureLENGTH OF PROCEDURE IS NOT LONG, BUT CAN TAKE MORE TIME DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE WOUNDTHERE IS A COST FOR ARTIFICIAL SKIN, AT $1,000 FOR 40 SQUARE INCHES OF SKIN

SKIN CAN BE DONATED BOTH BY DEAD AND ALIVE DONORSAS LONG AS THE SKIN HAS BEEN PRESERVED

SKIN GRAFTS GENERALLY DON’T KILL THE PATIENT,IT IS USUALLY THE REASON FOR THE SKIN GRAFT

THAT KILLS YOU

Post-Procedure

AFTER GRAFT IS APPLIED, PATIENT‘S MOVEMENT IN AREAIS LIMITED

SPECIAL LEGGINGS ARE WORN WITH LEG GRAFTS, BUT ALLGRAFTS MUST HAVE BANDAGES REPLACED REPEATEDLY

OVER TIME

NO LONG TERM EFFECTS THAT ALTER THE RECIPIENTSLIFESTYLE AFTER SURGERY

After skin graftHealed Wound

Bibliography

www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requesturl=/healthatoz/ency/skin-grafting.jsp

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002982.htm

www.aakp.org/aakp-library/transplant-drugs/

Thank you

THIS HAS BEEN AN MSQUARED GOBY AND MCCLUTCH PRODUCTION