21.   The old dermatome removed a single layer that was later processed to meet the needs of burn patients or companies.

22.   There, VanDeGrift began the long, difficult road to recovery traveled by all burn patients, with one big difference.

23.   These burn patients undergo weeks in intensive care, followed by weeks in a burn unit, followed by years of rehabilitation and reconstructive surgery.

24.   They thought the technology could create customized masks to help burn patients.

25.   Unlike many trauma patients, burn patients often are alert.

26.   VR is also used to treat impotence and premature ejaculation and control pain in burn patients undergoing wound care and in women giving birth.

27.   Was too much of the life-saving skin needed for burn patients going to private firms like Collagenesis that use it to make medical products for elective procedures?

28.   Was too much of the life-saving skin needed for burn patients going to private firms that use it to make medical products for elective procedures?

29.   But he recommended other testing on more seriously ill burn patients and others.

30.   Skin grafts can dampen this hypermetabolism in burn patients, but scientists have also tested drugs such as insulin and anabolic steroids.