Coutiño-Mata JJ, Cuenca-Pardo J, Álvarez-Díaz CJ, Villaseñor FA

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 61-64
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ABSTRACT

Adequate handling of donor sites is important, because in patients with extensive burns these prove insufficient to provide the necessary skin to cover the injuries and it is necessary to use them more than once. Adequate handling is based on shortening the epithelialization time, avoiding complications such as infection, deepening or anomalous scarring, that delay its use. It has been reported that fitostimuline (Triticum vulgare) exercises on the grafts repairing action tissues. The objective of the present study was to determine the difference in the time of epithelialization of the skin graft donor sites, being treated with fitostimuline impregnated gauze, compared with those treated with gauze with petrolatum. We studied 22 patients with graft donor sites. The same patient served as intervention and control zone, the study zone was covered with gauze impregnated with fitostimuline. The control zone was treated with petrolatum gauze. The epithelialization in the experimental area occurred in an average of 14.18 days while in the control area it was 11.04 days, with a difference of 3.14 days (p ± 0.001). In no case were complications present. In our study the application of fitostimuline, at gauze presentation, did not accelerate the process of re-epithelialization of the donor sites, therefore we consider that it is not a useful product for managing of donor sites.

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