Modern aspects of the monitoring of a burn wound readiness for autodermoplasty

Abstract

The leading principle of burned patients’ treatment is to perform free autodermoplasty with split autodermografts. The main criterion for a successful plastic surgery is the percentage of engraftment of skin grafts. The issues of readiness of burn wounds for such surgical interventions continue to be studied and remain open at the present time. The degree of readiness of burn wounds for skin grafting is known to depend on many factors, among which the state of the microbial flora and the level of bacterial contamination of the wound surface play an important role as one of the main criteria for maintaining inflammation in the wound. The method of cytological examination of prints from burn wounds has found wide application, which is associated with the peculiarities of pathomorphological processes in burn wounds. Great importance is attached to studying the state of microcirculation in the wound using laser Doppler flowmetry in order to determine the perfusion and reparative ability of granulation tissue of a burn wound. However, in addition to local criteria, general condition of the body and the state of its immune system in particular should be taken into account. A great number of research works is devoted to the study of immune reactions in response to burn injury. The results of these studies also make it possible to identify certain criteria for predicting the success or chance of unsatisfactory outcomes of autodermoplasty. The levels of hemoglobin and total protein allowing to expect successful surgical treatment have been determined. In spite of the wide range of methods to determe the readiness of a wound for autodermoplasty, many of them are imperfect and nonspecific. The development of complications in the form of lysis or rejection of skin grafts, the maintenance of inflammatory processes, the development of a shortage of donor resources, mortality and the likelihood of developing severe cicatricial deformities in long-term results depend on the quality and timing of surgical treatment. Therefore, the problem of uniform criteria identification for the readiness of a burn wound surface for plastic surgery remains relevant for combustiologists and surgeons.