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Trauma
Author(s) -
Maricel E. Cardigni,
TRAUMA y SENTIDO,
Alfried Längle
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1046/j.1445-2197.73.s.19.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , information retrieval , library science , computer science
There is currently no centralised facility in NSW for the procurement or storage of allograft skin, a standard resource in other parts of Australia and overseas for the treatment of severe burn injuries. As a result allograft skin is difficult to obtain rapidly and cheaply in NSW and therefore does not form part of the standard armamentarium of treatment for large body surface area burns. In this study the legal, ethical and financial obstacles towards providing such a service were examined. The cost of providing a skin harvest service as part of the NSW Coordination Centre for Organ and Tissue Donation was compared with that of importing allograft skin from interstate and overseas. The use of other biological wound dressings and the costs and drawbacks of these were also examined and compared with allograft skin. The cost of establishing a service capable of harvesting, processing and storing allograft skin was found to be cheaper than that of a storage facility for imported skin at 5 years after establishment and cheaper also than biological skin substitute and cultured skin treatment modalities. 73 TR.doc RACS Annual Scientific Congress, 2003 ANZJ. SURG. 203; 73 (Suppl.) bstracts BEES SGML TR03 ESTABLISHING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SERVICE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES EFFICIENCY AND OUTCOME FROM BURN INJURY