The urgent need to achieve an optimal strategic stock of human allogeneic skin graft materials in case of a mass disaster in Poland.

ABSTRACT: A burn is a sudden injury which immediate or long-term consequences may be life-threatening for the patient. A mass disaster event may involve large numbers of severely burned patients. Patients of this type typically have a limited area of healthy, unburned skin from which an autologous split thickness skin graft could be collected. In a clinical situation of this type, it is necessary to use a particular skin substitute. Non-viable allogeneic human skin graft materials might be considered as the most suitable skin substitutes in the treatment of such patients. At present, Poland does not have a sufficient supply of human allogeneic skin graft materials to meet the needs arising from a sudden and unforeseen mass disaster. This study involved an analysis of selected mass disasters. From th

SUBMITTER: Labus W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8967378 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature