title: Nursing management of skin grafts and donor sites.
abstract: Skin grafting is one of the most commonly used techniques in plastic and reconstructive surgery. The patient undergoing split-thickness skin grafting may pose a variety of wound care problems for the nurse. The issues that may need to be addressed include: the reasons for grafting; type of graft used; preoperative and postoperative care of the recipient and donor sites; and the provision of general measures required to promote wound healing and successful graft take for the patient.
authors.affiliation: University of Wales.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fowler
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000451:nursing*