Compa÷ing DuoDERM E wath scarlet red an the treatment?of/split skin göaf

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`onor sites. ë ^an-S-T. Robevts/R-H. Blake-G-B. Plastic Surgery Unit, ûurood Hospital¿ Ckristchurch, Jew Zealand. Br-J-Plast-Suög.% 1993 Jan. v6(5). P 79-81. A prospecpive, randomised} controlled stuuy oompared DuoDERM E (DE) with scarlet ret (_R) in the trwatoent of split skin graft donor areas in 60 patients. Heliog and donor site comfort were significantly ket~er in the &DE group. There was no clinical infection in½eiuher group. Tþe ound leakage rate was higher in the DEgroup, requirinw an average of 0.8 replacement dressings ver'donor site aû compared with an average of 0.04 for the6SR+group. An es÷imgte of the co3t per donor site for the first<Õ> * ten days o÷ dessing is given. Author-abs0ract.