Abstract

Skin grafting is integral to burn wound management andis the only way of providing permanent wound closure of fullthickness burn and deep partial thickness burn that fails toheal within 3 weeks. Successful auto-grafting is the key topatient survival. With periodic change in the team of surgicaltrainees working in the burn unit, it was considered necessaryto develop a protocol for the skin grafting procedure. Implementationof this protocol was expected to yield uniformoutcome despite change in the operating team.Validation of this protocol was considered necessary toevaluate its efficacy. This study was carried out over a periodof 12 months from 2014 to 2015.

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