Treatment of Burns Surgical Procedures

Treatment of Burn Patient skins is very complicated and not a easy task. The more the burn have injuries and skin tissues damaged the more you have to care in surgical procedures. Surgical of burn patients are of two types depending upon the severity of Burn Injuries the burn patient have. In burn injuries the scars have to be removed due to the surgical procedures and they are

Skin Grafts

Dermabrasion

Now I will explain them briefly here to have you knowledge about these two Surgical Procedures of Treating Burn Patients

Skin Grafts

The surgical procedure in which one piece of skin is taken from one part of the body and have set at the damage area of the body is called skin Grafting. Skin Grafting is done when the patient is under anesthesia and it takes time to surgery depending upon the damage site. Skin Grafting are of various types depends upon the severity of burn injuries.

Pinch grafts are minimum quarter skin placed from donor site to damage site of the skin and it takes more then 24 hours to start running blood at damage site.

Split thickness grafts consist of some layers of skin and are add to the damage site of the skin It is more in length and wide and after this surgery patient have been dressed to not exposed to the air.

Full thickness graft are used at that places where the weight of the body is more and it consists of full layers of skin along with blood vessels and they are added to the damage site of burn injury and take from the donor place. This take also more then 24 hours to start blood in the damage site and running the function. It also take much time to recur from this type of injury of burn patient.

Dermabrasion :

The surgical procedure in which the burn area or damaged area skin is improved to reduce the scars and smooth the figure and shape of the burn area. In this surgery only the damaged skin is to enhance and improved but it will not remove the scars of the burns. This surgical treatment reduced the scars of burn but it will not removed completely from the body. Dermabrasion process take place running after mroe then 36 hours of the body and newly skin is growing to work and the skin became red and swallow and make itching to the patient which means that the new skin is started its process of growing.

In dermabrasion surgery if you feeling any kind of problem ask from your surgeon at first attempt to resolve this in early age.

In both Dermabrasion and Skin Grafts surgery patients have to take care of his damaged skin and not to work in which pressure have to be placed on the damage site as well avoid direct sunlight and patient have to completely rest for about two weeks and for more support the patient have to avoid any activity that causes pressure on the skin. After one year or two the patient burn skin is nearest close to his original skin.

It takes time but it worth's more to back to normal activities. These are the detail of treatment of burn surgical procedures. Feel free to comment about any problem you have.

What is Thermal Burn?

Thermal as name shows " heat " are most important burn injuries among all other Burns.

Thermal Burn is caused due to number of ways like when you are in home , industry , outside in field and they are making high damage to your skin which is exposed directly to the thermal body.

What Causes Thermal Burn ?

As I said above numerous factors involved in this injury of burns. Like when you are in home and doing cooking , boiling water , milk due to some mis incident thermal injury can affect you and normally thermal burn starts from the temperature above then 115 degree. This is mainly depend on how near and clear your body surface to the injury. The same can be happened to industrial labors who are working with high warm machines , a simple mistake can produce high thermal burn to their body which is mainly exposed to the machines. The ratio of thermal burns are increased also due to this factor as majority of workers are dealing with high machines having very high temperature.
Thermal Burns mainly have high damage to skins but the benefit is that they are not much severe as the whole body is safe mainly in this injury because your hands are in contact on the working body.

How to save yourself from Thermal Burns ?

Thermal Burns are mainly occur due to the small mistakes done unintentionally so if the precautions are done at every time then this type of burn can be reduced to much extent.While ladies working at home they should have to mask the hands while touching high warm things or try to avoid direct contact with those things resulting in major reduce in thermal burns.