Journal of wound care
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Journal of wound care · Jun 2017
Randomized Controlled TrialThe use of modern dressings in managing split-thickness skin graft donor sites: a single-centre randomised controlled trial.
To identify the most appropriate, most suitable and most efficient dressing for split-thickness skin graft (STSG) donor sites. Comparing the wound healing rate, pain severity and duration, as well as the dressing change frequency in four randomised patient groups. ⋯ The fastest healing time was demonstrated by patients in the TBF group. The pain was not as severe and for a shorter period of time in modern dressing study groups. However, the pain was lightest and felt shortest in TBF dressing group. The modern dressings PU and PUSM had to be changed more frequently than TBF.