Did you know that putting fish skins directly on human skin can improve wound healing?
In this video, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,” discusses new research from Brazil that compared results on burn wound healing between the standard treatment of silver sulfadiazine cream and Nile Tilapia fish skin. The experiment’s results tip the scales in favor of treating burns with Nile Tilapia Fish skin in the poor-resource public health systems of developing countries.
Read the May 2021 PRS #PlasticSurgery article, “Nile Tilapia Fish Skin–Based Wound Dressing Improves Pain and Treatment-Related Costs of Superficial Partial-Thickness Burns: A Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial” by Lima Júnior, de Moraes Filho, Costa, Fechine, Vale, Diógenes, Neves, Uchôa, Soares, and de Moraes. Find it on PRSJournal.com.
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