What biologic (e.g. porcine xenografts) or alternative dressings have you found helpful for second-intention wound healing?
Porcine xenografts are no longer available and I am wondering what alternative dressings are other surgeons using.
Answer from: at Community Practice
Over the last 6 years, I have utilized a number of allograft/xenograft options for select wounds where linear/flap closure is not ideal and an FTSG/STSG/Burow's Graft is not preferred.
They range from Animal derived Collagens, Placental, and Amniotic products, and Cadaver skin grafts (i.e. Theraski...
I am using the Oasis Ultra Tri-layer matrix by Smith&Nephew - prefer the previous EZ derm porcine xenograft but this still seems to work for large, deep wounds (particularly on the scalp).