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Skin grafting is a well-established procedure using skin or skin substitute to cover non-healing wounds or burns with the body´s own tissue. Management of donor site wounds in high-risk patients is crucial and bears a challenge, especially in an ever-growing eldely patient cohort, adequate to better knowledge and material supply. This clinical trial compares two artificial foam dressings and a temporary artificial skin repalcement dressing for donor site wounds in elderly patients receiving split-thickess skin graft surgery. Major criteria in this patient cohort were pain management, re-epthelialization time, prevention of infection, functionality and patient satisfaction. The "ideal wound dressing" always depends upon the patients´s individural demands and there are different focuses at particular points in time. We observed painlessless most important for patients immediately after surgery. Both dressing materials guaranteed a supportive and painless healing process with low intervention and thus meet requirements of an ideal dressing for high-risk patients best.

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Elisabeth Veronika AichnerBorn August 26 1970 in Lienz/Tirol2003 - 2014 Study of Medicine/Medical University of GrazCurrent Residency at the Anatomical Institute/Medical University of Graz

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