• J Plast Surg Hand Surg · Aug 2020

    Enzymatic debridement of hands with deep burns: a single center experience in the treatment of 52 hands.

    • Mehran Dadras, Johannes M Wagner, Christoph Wallner, Alexander Sogorski, Maxi Sacher, Kamran Harati, Marcus Lehnhardt, and Björn Behr.
    • Department of Plastic Surgery, BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany.
    • J Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2020 Aug 1; 54 (4): 220-224.

    AbstractBackground: Bromelain-based enzymatic debridement has been introduced as an alternative to surgical excision in deep partial thickness and full thickness burns. We aimed to analyze effectiveness and predictors of spontaneous epithelialization after enzymatic debridement of deep hand burns.Methods: All patients who received enzymatic debridement for deep partial thickness or full thickness burns of the hands at our institution in the last 5 years were identified. Demographic, clinical and outcome data were collected and analyzed. For patients with deep partial thickness burns, Kaplan-Meier log-rank and subsequent multivariate Cox-regression analysis were performed to identify predictors of spontaneous epithelialization.Results: 44 patients and 52 hands were treated in the observation period. Among these, 14 had full thickness burns and received split thickness skin grafts. In the 38 hands with deep partial thickness burns, predictors of 28-day epithelialization were total burn extent and mechanism of burn injury. During the first 3 years, 8 out of 13 treated deep partial thickness burns received split thickness skin grafts after a median of 3 days. The following 3 years, 5 out of 25 deep partial thickness burns received surgery after a median of 14 days.Conclusions: Enzymatic debridement is a useful tool in the treatment of burned hands but the decision-making and correct timing of operative intervention in deep partial thickness burns after debridement requires experience. In our cohort, spontaneous healing of deep partial thickness burns was best in patients with contact burns and less than 15% burn TBSA.

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