Skin grafts might be necessary in cases of hypothermia
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Benefit for UMD Student Who Suffered Extreme Hypothermia, Needs Skin Grafts
KSTP.com
A benefit was held Sunday for the University of Minnesota Duluth student who survived nine hours outside in the freezing cold last month.
Encompass HealthCare‘s insight:
Encompass HealthCare and Wound Medicine helps people like this student everyday. With a multitude of skin grafts available, patients’ wounds heal with a variety of grafts derived from human, cadaveric, and artificial sources that all encourage collagen production and wound healing. In addition, these therapies are delivered in an outpatient setting, permitting the patient to get treatment, go back to work, go back home, or go wherever they’d rather be (probably NOT stuck in a hospital.) At Encompass HealthCare and Wound Medicine, we would welcome the opportunity to help patients like this student.
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