title: [The skin substitute center--a need in the treatment of patients with severe burns].
abstract: The treatment of the severe burned patient has two main dimensions acting in an interdependent manner. First it is the life keeping and the second is skin resurfacing in a fair period of time. The failure of one of these two components leads to the patient's death. In the absence of the autografts the skin resurfacing has to be made by permanent skin substitutes--cultured epithelium, dermal equivalents or reconstructed skin, developed by a special unit, a Skin Substitute Center. The paper is setting the utility of such a center in our area, and the possible developing directions. It is our firm opinion that in case of failure to develop such a center, despite all the financial efforts directed toward the infrastructure of a modern Burn Unit affiliated to an University Accident Hospital, all the surgical experience cumulated during the past 13 years by a very motivated team, good quality results are still to be expected. Any patient with a deep second degree burn on more than 50% TBSA will be a potentially victim as in early 60s.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pieptu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Luchian
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D012383:Romania; D017768:Skin, Artificial; D013531:Surgicenters