Skin Graft

Skin Grafting

RANSPLANT OF EITHER YOUR OWN, SOMEONE ELS OR EVEN ARTIFICIAL SKIN

BY TIM GOBRECHT SAM MCCUTCHIN AND MATT MCGEEHAN

OPEN WOUND

Pre-skin graft

Basic Information •

Part of Integumentary System Surrounds Entire Body

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Protects Body, Regulates Temperature, and Gives Sense of Touch

Statistics •

More 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

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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 MAY NEED A SKIN GRAFT IF: •

You have a third-degree burn You have a wound that won’t heal

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You just had surgery

Can I Donate Skin?

NOT IF YOU HAVE SKIN DISEASE

T MOST SKIN TRANSPLANTS ARE DONE WITH HER ARTIFICIAL SKIN, PIG SKIN, OR THE SKIN OF THE DONOR THEMSELVES (AUTOGRAPH) ALMOST ANYONE CAN RECEIVE A SKIN GRAFT, LONG AS YOU DO NOT REACT TO THE ANESTHETICS USED FOR SURGERY

The Procedure

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

CAN BE DONATED BOTH BY DEAD AND ALIVE DON ONG 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

PostProcedure

ER GRAFT IS APPLIED, PATIENT‘S MOVEMENT IN AR IS LIMITED

LONG TERM EFFECTS THAT ALTER THE RECIPIEN LIFESTYLE AFTER SURGERY

CIAL LEGGINGS ARE WORN WITH LEG GRAFTS, BUT AFTS MUST HAVE BANDAGES REPLACED REPEATED OVER TIME

After skin graft Healed Wound

Bibliograph y

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www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/atoz/common/standard/transform.js www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002982.htm

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

Thank you THIS HAS BEEN AN MSQUARED GOBY AND MCCLUTCH PRODUCTION