Consult your child's physician for a diagnosis. Burn severity is determined by the amount of body surface area that has been affected. The burn severity will be determined by your child's physician. This procedure can be done in a special bathtub in the hospital or as a surgical procedure. A skin graft is a piece of the child's unburned skin which is surgically removed to cover a burned area.
Skin grafts can be thin or thick.
Skin grafts are performed in the operating room. The burn that is covered with a skin graft is called a graft site. The area where the piece of unburned skin was taken to be donated to a burned area is called a donor site. After a skin graft procedure the donor sites look like a scraped or a skinned knee. Your child's physician will decide if a skin graft is needed.