Assessment of Pain, Soakage and Healing of Donor Site after Split Thickness Skin Graft Harvest from Thigh – A Study of 32 Cases
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 10
Abstract
Management of large wounds may be due to various etiologies, mainly trauma or chronic disease, burns etc. Early coverage of such areas is very important as chronic wounds may get infected or lead to disabling contractures ultimately bringing down the quality of life of the patient. To cover such large wounds split thickness skin grafting is necessary and skin needs to be borrowed from the patient’s own body. This causes added morbidity to the patient. Hence healing of the donor site becomes a priority to the treating surgeon. We have looked into our experience of pain perception by patients, soakage of dressing and time taken for healing of donor sites when split thickness skin graft is harvested from thigh of the patients. Procedure of skin graft harvest is done using a standard method of harvest and uniform postoperative care was given to the donor site and the findings were recorded. Findings included the day’s upto which donor site dressing soaked, pain, healing time.
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Narendra SM
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