Evaluation of Skin Grafting Procedure in Burnt Patients

Skin grafting is integral to burn wound management and is the only way of providing per‐ manent wound closure of full thickness burn and deep partial thickness burn that fails to heal within 3 weeks. With pre-existing burn wound, paucity of autograft donor site and compromised status of patient, successful autografting is the key to patient survival. With periodic change in the team of surgical trainees working in the burn unit, it was considered necessary to develop a protocol for the skin grafting procedure. Implementation of this pro‐ tocol was expected to yield uniform outcome despite change in the operating team. Valida‐ tion of this protocol was considered necessary to evaluate its efficacy. This study was carried out over a period of 22 months from 1st July 2003 to 31st April 2005.