title: The use of collagen film (Cutycol) as a dressing for donor areas in split skin grafting.
abstract: In this investigation sterile collagen film has been used as a dressing for 55 donor areas. The two aims of our study were to find out whether this film could be used as a dressing and whether the film which was applied at the time of surgery could be used as the only dressing before complete healing was achieved. The results were good in 56% of the cases and fair in 20%. It was noted that local pre-treatment with epinephrine gave better results. If only small or medium sized donor areas were included the results were even better. This is probably because the film in larger donor areas could slip away leaving the donor site more or less exposed. The results are encouraging in two important aspects: The donor sites were not painful and the nursing staff could reduce or eliminate time-consuming work with frequent dressings.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001458:Bandages; D001684:Biological Dressings; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003094:Collagen / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011292:Premedication; D016038:Skin Transplantation
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen; D004837:Epinephrine