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Educating the burn care professionals around the world

AUTHORS: Robert H. Demling, M.D. Leslie DeSanti R.N., Dennis P. Orgill, M.D. Ph.D.

THE USE OF SKIN SUBSTITUTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.	What are the properties of normal skin
2.	Evolution of burn wound care to early wound closure
3.	Skin Substitutes in burn management (Historical Perspective)
4.	Biosynthetic Skin Substitutes (Development, Criteria and Clinical Indications)
5-9	Biobrane: Structure, properties and evidence based on clinical experience
10-12	TransCyte: Structure, properties and evidence based clinical experience
13	References

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