If you get a skin graft do you go home the same day?

If you get a skin graft do you go home the same day?


Ive got a burn that may need a skin graft and around it was a little burn i sustained close to it but that has kinda healed but i think it is infected. Would they send me home the same day if their is an infection near the skin graft? and also would they do a skin graft if an area near the burn is infected? or would they wait for the infection to heal before they do it
If you get a skin graft do you go home the same day?
Depending on the size of the graft if it is a small place as big as a .50 cent piece probably out patient very large it will take a few hours of surgury plus the fact that you will have to be watched for infection and rejection. I had graft when I was a child and spent a long time in the hospital but grafting has come a long way since then. They will clear up any infection before grafting unless the lack of a graft is life threatning
If you get a skin graft do you go home the same day?
Probably not. Skin grafts are amazingly fragile. They can easily be torn. The skin used for grafts is so thin, you can read a newspaper through it. It needs time to set and grow.
Reply:They would probably get rid of the infection before they begin any graft process.





And no, you would not go home. The graft has to take the the body, or better yet, the body has to accept the graft and it begins to grow. It will take time for this to heal and be sure its free from infection.