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

• 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

• 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
• 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
 Post-
Procedure
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

• www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/atoz/common/standard/transform.js

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