caa a22 4500 606247165 CHVBK 20210128101343.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12262-013-0850-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12262-013-0850-3 Dhanraj Prema Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch/Shriners, 77550, Galveston, TX, USA aut A Clinical Study Comparing Helicoll with Scarlet Red and OpSite in the Treatment of Split Thickness Skin Graft Donor Sites—A Randomized Controlled Trial [Elektronische Daten] [Prema Dhanraj] Split thickness skin graft (STSG) is a key method in the reconstructive ladder for covering skin defects used widely by surgeons from all specialties. The donor site is often a source of delayed healing, associated with considerable pain and discomfort even more than the recipient wound. The aim of this prospective randomized controlled study was to compare Helicoll® (EnColl Corp., Fremont, CA, USA), a type I pure collagen dressing, to OpSite® (Smith & Nephew, USA) dressing and to Scarlet Red® (Kendall HealthCare, USA) dressing in the treatment of standardized STSG donor sites. Thirty patients, over a 3-month period, underwent various reconstructive procedures, necessitating the use of STSGs. Following a simple randomized clinical protocol, the analysis of data included donor site pain, healing time of the donor site, initial absorption of the applied dressing and rate of infection with the three different dressings to form the basis of this paper. Patients in the Helicoll group reported significantly less pain, less infection rate and required no dressing change when compared with the OpSite (Johnson & Johnson, Langhorne, PA, USA) or the Scarlet Red groups. Healing time of the donor site in the Helicoll group was shorter than that in the Scarlet Red group; however, it was comparable to the OpSite group. This study indicates that Helicoll, as a donor site dressing, is successful in providing pain-free mobility with a measurable healing rate. Association of Surgeons of India, 2013 Helicoll nationallicence Scarlet Red nationallicence OpSite nationallicence Split thickness skin graft (STSG) nationallicence Donor site nationallicence Indian Journal of Surgery Springer India 77(2015-12-01), 385-392 0972-2068 77<385 2015 77 12262 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-013-0850-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-013-0850-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dhanraj Prema Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch/Shriners, 77550, Galveston, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Indian Journal of Surgery Springer India 77(2015-12-01), 385-392 0972-2068 77<385 2015 77 12262