Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of a rehabilitation nursing intervention model on improving the comprehensive health status of patients with hand burns.
To observe the effect of a rehabilitation intervention on the comprehensive health status of patients with hand burns. ⋯ The comprehensive rehabilitation intervention model used here provides scientific guidance for medical staff aiming to improve the integrated health status of hand-burn patients and accelerate their recovery. What does this paper contribute to the wider global clinical community?
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It is important to minimize time to healing in the donor site after split-thickness skin grafting (STSG). It has been shown that minced skin grafting improves the appearance of the STSG donor site. The objective of this study was to investigate whether mincing the leftover harvested skin and grafting it back onto the donor site during minced grafting (MG) reduces healing time of the donor site. ⋯ MG of the STSG donor site reduced the average time to healing by approximately 4days (9.1 vs. 13.2). This effect was independent from the size of the donor site and MG/STSG mass ratio. This procedure, which makes use of skin leftovers after skin grafting, should be performed prior to applying wound covering material as a means of reducing time to healing and level of patient's discomfort.