The document discusses surgical management and procedures for burn wounds, including escharotomy to relieve pressure, debridement of dead tissue, and grafting. Key procedures mentioned are tracheostomy, central line insertion, escharotomy, and debridement. Early excision of burn wounds within 3-7 days is recommended to prevent infection, promote healing, and reduce scarring and contractures compared to delayed excision. A variety of temporary skin substitutes, permanent skin grafts and wound closure methods are also discussed.
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Burn update 2013 by Dr. Sunil Keswani, National Burns Centre, Airoli
1. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT IN
BURNS
Dr S. M. Keswani
National Burns Centre
Airoli, Navi Mumbai
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2. Procedures
• Tracheostomy
• Central line
insertion
• Escharotomy
• Debridement.
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3. COMPARTMENT SYNDROME
• Signs and symptoms:
– Unrelenting deep pain
– Pallor
– Progressive paresthesias
– Progressive decrease, absence of pulse
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4. Eshcarotomy
May limit chest
excursion
Rule out other causes of
respiratory distress
Incisions along anterior
axillary lines, across
costal margin to midline
Only burnt tissue
divided, not fascia
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5. Burn wound management
• Circumferential extremity
burns:
– Edema under eschar
– Remove all rings,
jewelry
– Elevate, active motion
– Check skin color,
sensation, capillary
refill, Doppler pulses
q1h
– Rule out hypotension,
arterial injury
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6. Burn wound management
• If have loss of palmar
= Dorsal hand
arch pulse
escharotomy
+
Full-thickness burn
dorsal hand
+
Normal radial and ulnar
pulses
Finger escharotomies rarely indicated - consult
accepting burn surgeonNational Burns Centre,
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7. Extremity compartment syndrome:
– Edema beneath deep fascia
– Seen in massive resuscitation, high
voltage injuries, delay in escharotomy
(ischemia-reperfusion), crush
– Opening pressure >30 mmHg
– Fasciotomy in OR
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9. Meshed graft Vs Meek Micrografting
Vs Sheet Graft
• Acute burns always meshed or meek
micrografting for better takes
• Reconstructive procedures like overgrafting
and release of contractures always sheet
grafting for better cosmesis
• Meek micrografting gives wider coverage and
more predictable takes than mesh grafting but
more expensive
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10. MATERIALS & METHODS
Surplus cutting
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11. MATERIALS & METHODS
Positioning on plate.
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12. MATERIALS & METHODS
Dermatome cut through
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13. MATERIALS & METHODS
Adhesive Spraying
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14. MATERIALS & METHODS
Adhesive Spraying
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15. MATERIALS & METHODS
Cork removing.
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16. MATERIALS & METHODS
Gauze expantion
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17. MATERIALS & METHODS
Gauze expanded.
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18. MATERIALS & METHODS
Micrograft positioning
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19. MATERIALS & METHODS
After gauze removal. 7th day.
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20. Early Excision
“Injured dermis
defends itself poorly
against infection, so a
program of slough
excision with
immediate grafting
seems better than
focusing on
antibacterial
measures.”
Z. Janzekovic
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21. Early Excision
• Definition:
– Janzekovic- 3-5 days, rational
• not yet colonized
• definitive tissue damage is established
• prior to wound contraction
– Baumer and Henrich - 5-6 days
– Davies- 7 days
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22. Early Excision
• Criteria:
– diagnosis of deep burns established
– patient able to tolerate major surgery
– normal coagulation parameters
– adequate donor areas
– +/- inhalation injury
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23. Historical Perspective
• 1970’s: Janzekovic Tangential Excision
– performed early before colonization
– patients in better physical condition
– improved scar quality
– fewer contractures
– shorter hospital stay
– fewer dressing changes
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24. Historical Perspective
• 1950’s:
– Rare survival for burns >40%
– Burn wound sepsis less of an issue
• 1950-70’s:
– normal practice to wait for eschar separation
– wound contraction
– increased metabolic rate
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25. Historical Perspective
• 1969: Introduction of SSD
– decreased bacterial colonization of wounds
– lower conversion rates to full thickness
– increased tendency to watch and wait
– prolonged period to eschar separation
– large unsightly hypertrophic scars
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26. Historical Perspective
• Value of early excision and grafting
– 1980s - in otherwise healthy subjects
– 20% TBSA
– led to shorter hospitalization
– early return to work
– better cosmetic result
– less expenditure
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27. Historical Perspective
• No increase in overall blood loss
• No increase in cumulative operating time
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28. Historical Perspective
• Elderly Population (>50yrs)
– advantages less clear
– Decreased hospital stay
– Fewer septic episodes
– Early DONOR wound closure
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29. Historical Perspective
• Pediatric Population:
– <50%TBSA
NO significant change in
• 1- length of stay
• 2-blood requirements
• 3- mortality
– >50% TBSA
• decreased mortality.
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30. Historical Perspective
• Mesh Grafting
– greater coverage with available auto graft
– enhanced wound drainage
– decreased number of procedures
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31. Order of excision
• Areas easy and quick to excise: trunk and
legs
• Joints and throats
• Hands and face
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32. Allograft
• In patients with massive burn injury,
temporary coverage with allograft is
essential
• Development of US Navy Skin Bank in
Maryland in 1949 signified the
emergence of modern day skin banking
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33. Allograft
• 1881 - First use of allograft by harvesting a
suicide victims skin to use for closure of a burn
wound
• Large part initially took, during second and third
weeks and “erysepelatous inflammation”
resulted
• 1944 - Successful take of graft stored in vaseline
gauze for 3 weeks at 4 - 7 °C
• Use of allograft became standard in 1950’s when
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34. Clinical Use of Homograft
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38. Case 2
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42. Use of Autograft
Release of a SEVERE POST BURN
CONTRACTURE
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47. Allograft
Classic benefits of allograft as a physiologic and
mechanical barrier:
Reduction in water, electrolyte and protein
loss
Reduction in energy requirements
secondary to the attainment of a closed
wound
Reduction in wound infection rates
Reduction in pain
Conservation of autografts
Improved general welfare and psychological
outlook of the patient
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48. Porcine Skin
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49. Porcine skin being meshed
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55. Covered with Acticoat
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56. Alloderm
•
•
•
•
•
•
Processed human cadaveric skin
Removed epidermis, extracted dermal cells
Template for dermal regeneration
Good take rates
Reduce subsequent scarring
Allowing grafting of an ultra-thin split-skin graft
as a one-stage procedure
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57. Integra
•
•
•
•
Most widely accepted synthetic skin substitute
Bilaminar structure
The median ‘take’ is 85%
Two-stage procedure, with a minimum interval
of 3 weeks between the application of the
Integra and the split-skin grafting
• Relatively expensive
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58. Cultured autologous keratinocytes
• Grown in vitro and then applied to wounds
• Take of cultured epithelial autografts depends
on the wound bed
• Expensive
• Skilled labour and quality control,
• 3–5 weeks to produce 1.8m2 confluent sheets
of cells from a 2 cm2 biopsy
• Fragile sheets
• Blistering, infection, and contractures.
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59. Wound Closure
• Composite Materials Strategy
– Allograft skin with cultured autologous
epidermal cells (Cuano et al.)
– Gelled collagen seeded with epidermal cells
and fibroblasts (Bell et al.)
– Collagen-glycosaminoglycan (CAG) matrix
with epidermal cells and fibroblasts
– Dermal matrix from fibroblasts on vicryl
mesh
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{"27":"Mortality at the MGH -\nearly excision and grafting instituted in 1976.\n","28":"Elderly Population\nHistorical controls (Dietch, 114 consecutive patients average age 68 years)\nhospital stay decreased 40-%\npreexisting medical conditions had no effect on survival\nEarly Donor site closure:\nRedundant skin of thighs and lower abdomen allows for direct excision and primary closure decreasing overall wound surface area.\n","56":"Processing is designed to leave a non-antigenic dermal scaffold, leaving basement membrane proteins intact\n","23":"Janzekovic, Zora (Yugoslavia)\nTangential Excision def’n:\nburned tissue excised layer by layer until a freely bleeding surface is obtained.\nQuickly became the standard excisional technique\nDebate remained - how much tissue to excise in one session.\n1978 proposed single session for full thickness burns <20%TBS, two sessions for those burns, 30-40% TBSA.\n1979 Jurkewiscz heading a consensus meeting for the American Burn Association recommended single session excision be limited to 30%BSA.\nReference:\nJanzekovic, Z: A new concept in the early excision and immediate grafting of burns. J Trauma 19:1103, 1970\n","57":"Inner layer is 2mm thick and is a combination of GAG and collagen fibers from bovine tissue\nInner layer has 70-200 nm pore size that allows fibrovascular ingrowth, after which it is designed to slowly biodegrade\nOuter layer is 0.009 inches thick polysiloxane polymer with vapor transmission characteristics similar to normal epithelium\n","24":"Eschar separation:\nFuelled by inflammatory response to injury and bacterial invasion. Enzymatic action leads to separation at the granulating interface.\n(Colebrook, 1950, Crews 1964).\nMediators- prostaglandins, thomboxane histamine, TNF.\nAdvantage- smaller wounds secondary to contraction but - higher incidence of contracture.\nDisadvantage- time consuming\nhigh evaporative water loss\nhigh metabolic demands, protein catabolism, weight loss.\nImmunosuppression, infection and sepsis\n","30":"Decreased procedures:\naverage number reduced from 4 to 1.5.\nEquivalent decrease in length of stay\n(Macmillan), 1970).\n","58":"such asburns, chronic leg ulcers, giant pigmented naevi,epidermolysis bullosa and neonatal scalp necrosis\nseparation from the tissue culture substrate using a proteolytic enzyme\nspontaneous blistering many months after grafting, increased susceptibility to infection, and contractures\nBovine serum proteins\nact as growth promoters\nDelayed loss of graft\ninitial take 64% declined to 47% at discharge for one study of 16 patients\nCost $2000-34 000 pr percent of definitive wound closure at discharge.\nBlistering\nassociated with high PGE2 and thromboxane levels suggesting an ongoing inflammatory response\nEffects of fibrin glues being evaluated with limited success\nFibrin-glue suspensionSome success has been achieved by applying cells together with fibrin glue, in a suspensionof growth medium or using a membrane for delivery.\nFibrin-glue sheets. Subconfluent cultured keratinocyteshave been grown on fibrin glue, and then transferred as asheet onto the wounds in three patients with excised fullthicknessburns. The fibrin was found to provide a satisfactorybarrier for 10 days, \n","20":"a wound must not be excised\nunless it can be immediately closed\nDoes early excision of large burns have any effect\non morbidity and mortality? A report by Cryer and\nothers4 notes markedly improved survival of patients\n41 to 60 years of age who have burns over 20% to\n65% TBSA and are treated with early excision and\ngrafting. Early wound closure may decrease overall\nmortality but does not change the morbidity pattern\nor cause of death of patients who die more\nthan 3 days postburn\n","59":"Cuano\nallograft provides coverage while the epidermal cell culture grows in vitro\nhost fibroblast migrate into the allograft dermal matrix replacing it\nBell\nLiving Skin Equivalent (LSE)\ndermal equivalent bovine collagen and neo-natal (foreskin) fibroblasts\noverlay of human epidermal cells\nGraftskin (tradename)\nDermagraft \napplied to wound and immediately autografted\ntake 70-90%\nno evidence of immunologic reaction to the neo-natal fibroblasts\ntested on 17 patients\n(age 31 range 9-69)\nburn size 23.8%TBSA\n","26":"Shorter hospitalization:\nlower rates of sepsis\nEarly studies excluded patients :\nolder than 55\nwith associated inhalation injury\nwith burns larger than 30%\nStudies in the mid eighties concluded that for burns larger than 30%TBSA, patients older than 30 years with inhalation injury the survival benefit was lost\nShriners Burn Institute - Galveston \nBurns >50%\nNo inhalation injury\n17-30 years old\nMortality decreased from 45% to 9%.\n","21":"Early Excision\nNational institutes of Health USA\n3-7 days.\n"}