ReCell Placement and Medical Procedure Overview
Competition
Procedure
Skin graft
Advantages
• Standard of care
• Specific graft procedure inexpensive
Rapid procedure
Disadvantages
• Scarring, cosmetic issues,
skin "quality"
• Large, painful donor site
• Infection, rejection
• Extended hospitalization
•
Repeated operations
Cultured epithelia
(auto or allo)
• Large coverage
• Small donor site
• Low infection
• Expensive
•2-6 weeks to grow
•
Allograph high rejection
rate
• Fragile
⚫ Cosmetic issues (skin
matching, scarring)
• Expensive
• Fragile
• Not skin matched: scarring
• Extended hospitalization with
interim wound coverage
.
Multiple procedures
•
Require specialised lab facilities
⚫ cost of immunosuppressive
treatment
Multiple procedures
⚫ "Not-ready-for-prime-time"
Artificial skin
Dermal matrixes
• Large coverage
• No donor site
• Low infection/reject
• Requires combination of above
•Provide rapid coverage
• Useful in severe, deep wounds
Expensive
• Extended hospitalization
with interim wound coverage
Multiple procedures
Requires 'skin' of some sort
ReCell Spray-On
Skin
• Rapid
• Low cost, decrease hospitalization
• Minimize donor site
• Minimal scar
• Low infection/reject
⚫ No lab requirements
• Can be used in combination with
other techniques
• Requires paradigm change
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