Pharmacy-assisted burn unit skin bank program.
Assistance by pharmacy services in the development and production of a sterile fluid for the preservation of homograft skin after "harvesting" from cadavers is described. Discussion includes the need for skin banking; sterile skin bank fluid formulation, production, storage use; physiological effects of homograft skin; indications for homograft usage; and acceptable cadaver donors.
D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital; D011786:Quality Control; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous