Skin grafting is integral to burn wound management and
is the only way of providing permanent wound closure of full
thickness burn and deep partial thickness burn that fails to
heal within 3 weeks. Successful auto-grafting is the key to
patient survival. With periodic change in the team of surgical
trainees working in the burn unit, it was considered necessary
to develop a protocol for the skin grafting procedure. Implementation
of this protocol was expected to yield uniform
outcome despite change in the operating team.
Validation of this protocol was considered necessary to
evaluate its efficacy. This study was carried out over a period
of 12 months from 2014 to 2015.