Skin Grafting Blade

SKIN GRAFTING BLADES: Skin grafting is the transfer of cutaneous tissue from one portion of the body to another, often used to cover large wounds. The rationale of skin grafts is to take skin from a donor site that will heal and transfer the skin to an area of need. Size: 158mm in length. Hospitime Skin Graft Knife Blades is used for grafting patch of skin. Skin grafting blade is a useful tool to collect skin graft/slices from patients during surgical procedures.
Split-thickness skin grafts (STSG) are composed of the epidermis and a superficial part of the dermis. Full-thickness skin grafts (FTSG) contain both the full epidermis and dermis. Composite grafts contain skin and another type of tissue, usually cartilage.
The skin graft instruments range includes the Kasten Coriotome, skin graft mesher and skin graft knives. The dermatomes include the most popular Humby and Watson dermatomes. Replacement blades are available which can be easily inserted into the skin graft knife, coriotome or dermatome.
A skin graft is a surgical procedure in which a piece of skin is transplanted from one area to another. Often skin will be taken from unaffected areas on the injured person and used to cover a defect, often a burn.
There are 4 kinds of grafts or transplants (xenograft, isograft, allograft, and autograft) based on the genetic variations between the recipient’s and donor’s tissues