Dr. Jerold Z. Kaplan

Jerold Kaplan, M.D., Medical Director of the Burn Center at Alta Bates/Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, California

At the Alta Bates Hospital's burn center in Berkeley, California, burn center director Dr. Jerold Kaplan, too, has been using hypnosis.Kaplan takes patients with burns on both sides of their bodies and, after hypnotizing them, asks them to try to make the temperature of one side higher than that on the other.

Jerold Kaplan, MDMedical Director, DeNicolai Burn Center, Alta Bates Hospital; Medical Director, Burn Center, Children's Hospital, Oakland.

"The problem is, we've never had an optimal way to do it," says Jerold Kaplan, M.D., director of the burn centers at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, Calif., and at Children's Hospital in nearby Oakland.The need to cover wounds as quickly as possible while minimizing scarring and additional trauma has driven development of advanced wound dressings and skin substitutes.Kaplan treated the 68-year-old California man's wounds with Integra Artificial Skin Dermal Regeneration Template, from Integra LifeSciences Corp., Plainsboro, N.J. "Integra is a significant addition to the armamentarium of the burn surgeon," Kaplan says, and other surgeons agree.
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"The ability to have the donor site be very thin and heal in just a few days is the big benefit," says Kaplan.
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"The problem here is you're putting on epidermis and not dermis," Kaplan says.
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"It's like gossamer," Kaplan says.And something has to cover the wound in the meantime.That's where Kaplan and others see a potentially useful combination.The patient's epidermis could be cultured during the two to three weeks while Integra's dermal layer becomes a suitable bed for grafting."They're complementary," says Kaplan.

"Occasionally, severe and potentially dangerous peeling of large areas is caused by a condition called TEN, or toxic epidermal necrolysis, which means toxic skin death," says Jerold Z. Kaplan, M.D., medical director of the Alta Bates Burn Center in Berkeley, California.

"The problem is, we've never had an optimal way to do it," says Jerold Kaplan, M.D., director of the burn centers at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, Calif., and at Children's Hospital in nearby Oakland.The need to cover wounds as quickly as possible while minimizing scarring and additional trauma has driven development of advanced wound dressings and skin substitutes.Kaplan treated the 68-year-old California man's wounds with Integra Artificial Skin Dermal Regeneration Template, from Integra LifeSciences Corp., Plainsboro, N.J. "Integra is a significant addition to the armamentarium of the burn surgeon," Kaplan says, and other surgeons agree.
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"The ability to have the donor site be very thin and heal in just a few days is the big benefit," says Kaplan.
...
"The problem here is you're putting on epidermis and not dermis," Kaplan says.
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"It's like gossamer," Kaplan says.And something has to cover the wound in the meantime.That's where Kaplan and others see a potentially useful combination.The patient's epidermis could be cultured during the two to three weeks while Integra's dermal layer becomes a suitable bed for grafting."They're complementary," says Kaplan.