Skin Grafting of Burns

This book outlines the essential points of care which have proved of benefit in treating a large series of patients with full-thickness loss of skin and requiring skin grafting, at the Washington University Medical School Children's Hospital and Barnes Hospital, during the course of a long period. In the first chapter, the authors stato : ' In the extensive literature on burn's, there has been a notable lack of reports of completed cases, i.e. final demonstrations of patients who have been badly burned and who have not only been treated and saved from death but who have had complete, final, and satisfactory surgical repair of resultant open wounds and contractures. Apparently most effort has been devoted to the development of some single method of caring for the local area, and of taking care of the acute stage of shock. Seemingly the wounds are allowed to heal as they will, or the final outcome??