Burned Firefighters Can Now Recover in Days... Not Months! Warning: Graphic Photos

The Skin Gun

A simple idea backed by stem cell research allows burn victims with severe burns to heal in merely days. This is a must read for all firefighters, with a challenge to see if this technology is available in your community. If it is not, now you know what to make happen. We have a tendency as firefighters to get burned once in awhile and any new technological benefits need to be shared to alleviate unnecessary pain and suffering.

This is a good example of a second degree burn.

Standardized skin regeneration and application for burn victims takes weeks to months with typical outcomes seen in the above photo, post 2nd degree burn.

Skin is the largest organ in the body. When it is severely burned, it needs to be replaced quickly and massively. Existing standard techniques used now for burn victims takes weeks to months to regenerate the skin tissue. This is the reason people die, do to the high potential for infection of the damaged tissues. Finding a way to get normal healthy skin, within a one-week window has long been considered the "holy grail" for burn treatment.

Skin cells are seen above being "grown" for harvesting but takes weeks to months.

Instead of growing sheets of skin, which are VERY fragile to move, healthy skin stem cells are collected taking a biopsy, the patients own healthy cells are then isolated and then put into a water solution and prepared for "cell spraying".

Cell spraying is just like paint spraying, you just need a more sophisticated device that is computer controlled using health skin stem cells instead of paint.

When a patient reaches the emergency room, it takes about 1/2-hour to take a biopsy, process it and then spray the affected burn area with health cells that have had nothing less than amazing results according the National Geographic story on Skin Cell Painting.

This individual who is featured in the video was seriously burned on his face, shoulder and arm with 2nd degree deep burns that looked like the photograph above. He went into the hospital on a Friday and this is what he looked like on Monday. Pretty amazing.

While this procedure is not available everywhere yet, my intent on sharing this post is to enable you to challenge the closest burn center that YOU might have to use, ensuring that they know about this new technology and giving you the best chance for survival and leading a normal healthy life.

TCSS,

Mike Schlags, Fire Captain/Paramedic (Retd.)

Santa Barbara, CA

mschlags@gmail.com

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Permalink Reply by Beverly on February 28, 2011 at 8:39am

Mike,
Thanks for this info, it's new to me. We are far away from the burn center so that technology hasn't reached the boonies. What amazing results although I do wonder if it allows for "normal" sensitivity at the burn site and maybe this can be used for other scar inducing injuries.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on February 28, 2011 at 9:33pm

according the information (links provided above) the original skin gun has morphed into a disposable mister... I don't obviously speak german, but the original graphics depicting the process that takes 30-minutes from start to finish is illustrated...

This was new to me as well, hence my sharing this technological breakthrough.

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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on April 13, 2011 at 5:43pm

Here's a link to a video uploaded by National Geographic a few days agao. AMAZING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI

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Permalink Reply by Roy Walker on April 14, 2011 at 2:44am

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