A skin bank is a place while cadaveric skin is processed and preserved under optimal conditions from where it can be used for the benefit of burns victims.
A person can donate his skin after his death. Skin can be donated within 6 hours from the time of death.
Anyone can donate skin irrespective of sex & blood group. The minimum age of the donor should be 18 years but there is no upper age limit. Even a 100-year-old person can donate his skin and it will be used for treatment.
No cross matching of blood group or HLA typing is required before placing the skin graft on the recipient.
The whole procedure takes only about 30-45 minutes.
No, skin bank team will come to the donors home, hospital or morgue wherever the donor is kept. We don`t need to shift the donor to the operating room, hospital or ambulance.
Yes, consent of the next of kin and a witness is required before skin harvesting procedure is initiated.
Skin of persons suffering from AIDS, Hepatitis B & C, sexually transmitted diseases, skin cancer, Active skin disease and septicemia are considered unfit for donation even donors with diabetes & hypertension can donate their skin.
After the skin is harvested, skin is evaluated, processed, screened at the skin bank, and then supplied to the burns surgeon for transplanting on burn patient.
When the candaveric skin is applied on a burn patient, it acts as a temporary dressing . It is rejected by the body over a period of four weeks. But, during that period, it helps in
