Tissue donation vs burns

• April 28, 2024

The donation of tissues Y skin is of vital importance to people who suffer some kind of Burns . In Mexico, there are about 114 thousand accidents of this type, according to Francisco Martínez Flores, Head of Division of the Skin and Tissue Bank of the National Rehabilitation Institute .

The tissues that are obtained through the donation, and that are kept in a specialized bank, are used for people who suffer Burns of third degree and that require a multidisciplinary treatment. The most common body areas where it is performed transplant of skin are:

1. Trunk
2. Abdomen
3. Hands
4. Thighs

When the skin It is implanted, helps to reduce the pain of the wound, and to maintain the temperature of the patient. The specialist points out that using the donated epidermis seeks to restore the unbalanced process of a burned patient, where 80% of these patients are children under five and adults over 60 with some disability.

In this type of donation and transplant there is no rejection process in the patients organism, because human skin is used as a temporary biological cover that does not generate an immune response and its main function is to cover the body area by accelerating the process ofcicatrization . 

Francisco Martínez pointed out that the donation of skin Y tissues is very important because it can save lives, since the most frequent complication burn is the infection by microorganisms .

The donation is done in institutions where you have a procurement program for organs Y tissues . There are multi-organ donors, that is, those people who in life decided to donate their organs to save lives and the donors who died due to a cardiac arrest.

The donation of sheets of skin It is not deforming or mutilating, because it is done with specialized and delicate equipment, a strip of the surface layer is taken with less than half a millimeter thick and taken from the non-visible areas, so that no marks or change are seen of physical appearance. And you, would you be willing to be a tissue donor?

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