Looking for Dr's and or hospitals that obligation skin.?
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I can't find anyone who will do it for free...
When asked to speak to rumors circulating on the Net, none of the doctors had any comprehension of “skin donation” deals, where on earth people near excess skin could donate it to burn victims to cover the cost of their surgeries. But none thought it was a completely crazy thought, and suggested speaking with burn clinics close to you if you’d close to to find out more.
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I recently lost over 200 pounds after gastric bypass surgery, and I hold about 30 pounds of excess skin. Do you embezzle donations of excess skin for your burn patients?
We cannot use donated skin for our patients. We are the state’s only Burn Center and carry out skin grafting everyday, but we use synthetic skin substitutes and the patient’s own skin.
It is possible (though not likely) that some of the organ harvest organizations may know how to take your donation. You might telephone call the Arkansas Regional Organ Recovery Agency (ARORA) at 501-224-2623.
There IS a need for relations to donate their organs (including skin) but not while still living - you get a casual to sign up to be an organ donor when you renew your driver's license. You can ask ARORA about that too.
http://www.archildrens.org/medical_servi...
Q: Can skin from gastric bypass surgery be donated to children for skin graft?
A: No, the only donor skin that can be used at the burn center is cadaver skin processed through a skin hill. Only skin from cadavers is used for skin graft, because cadavers pass the greatest amount of surface area – up to 10 sq. foot of usable skin for a burn patient. Skin that could be taken from a creature who had excessive freight loss would not generate the amount of skin or quality skin needed to treat burn patients.
http://www.shrinershq.org/hospitals/cinc...
There are two types of skin graft: split or full thickness where on earth a portion of the patients own skin is shaved off beside a dermatome, meshed (in the split thickness case) and next re-implanted on the area contained by question.
There is also the posibility of taking skin cell from the patient them selves and culturing them to regrow sheets of their own skin. This is expensive and time-consuming.
In extreme cases (e.g. focal burn injuries) cadaveric skin is used as a temporary covering to minister to reduce the rsk of infection.
I do not know the process involved contained by donating skin, but I would suspect that your best choice would be to contact your regional burn center. As (distant) second choice you may try contacting UNOS, but I don't think they gain involved in skin transplants. Either road, I'd do this a few weeks before your surgery.