11.   Kevin Wilhelmsen, a psychiatric nurse, said the emotional stress for people in the unit is unique because burn patients stay longer and often are fully communicative.

12.   LifeCell processes and distributes skin to burn patients but also uses it to make AlloDerm, a popular plastic surgery product.

13.   Magerman said that, at least for the time being, he expects the company will take all the tissue it can get without jeopardizing burn patients.

14.   Nobody understands scar formation, Engrav said, and nowhere is that lack of understanding more critical than with burn patients.

15.   Nursing care is critical to the survival of a burn patient.

16.   Ordinary skin cells do not grow enough to make new skin for burn patients.

17.   Ortec produces natural replacement skin using proprietary technology for treatment of burn patients and healing of wounds.

18.   Research Medical recently received permission to conduct a clinical trial with burn patients at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

19.   Similar procedures could regenerate skin for burn patients, immune cells for people with HIV, retinal cells for blind people or muscle cells to combat muscular dystrophy.

20.   The denuded skin is cleansed to protect it against bacterial contamination, and antibiotics are given to help prevent the infections that can be lethal for a burn patient.