• Br J Plast Surg · Jul 1989

    Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial

    Calcium alginate dressing accelerates split skin graft donor site healing.

    • A I Attwood.
    • Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit, Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, London.
    • Br J Plast Surg. 1989 Jul 1; 42 (4): 373-9.

    AbstractA prospective controlled trial of calcium alginate compared with traditional dressing of paraffin gauze on split skin graft (SSG) donor sites had to be abandoned after 15 patients as there was consistently better healing under the calcium alginate. The study was continued, on every patient requiring split skin grafting, to assess calcium alginate from the point of view of patient comfort, ease of dressing and quality of regenerated skin. In 107 patients with 130 SSG donor operations, there was a statistically highly significant decrease in average time to complete healing (from 10 down to 7 days), and also significantly better patient comfort. The alginate dressings were easy to use and the quality of the new skin significantly better than that seen under paraffin gauze dressings.

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