'Temporary skin grafts' help children with severe burns survive
Ten of 14 children who have suffered third-degree burns to at least 70% of their body surface are alive and well after a new kind of "temporary skin graft" treatment at Shriners Burns Institute in Boston. At least eight of the children are back in school.
Although the remaining four children died, it must be stressed that in the past, this happened to all such severely burned patients treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital or at the Shriners Burns Institute.
The team that treated the 14 patients was headed by John F. Burke, MD, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and chief of staff at Shriners Burns Institute. He described the treatment in an interview with MEDICAL NEWS after he and his co-workers, W. C. Quinby, MD, C. C. Bondoc, MD, A. B. Cosimi, MD, Paul S. Russell, MD,
. . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]
