Posted on 07/24/2007 12:27:21 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Doctors use shark skin grafts to treat burned terror suspect
24.07.07
Surgeons treating the terror suspect burned in the Glasgow Airport car bomb attempt are going to use "grafts" of a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cow tendons.
Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is being treated at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The process is called Integra Dermal Regeneration Template. "It tricks the body into creating new skin cells," explained Steve Jeffrey, a surgeon who worked in Australia perfecting the treatment.
Silicone implanted with shark skin extracts is laid on the burns for two weeks before it is removed and replaced with a layer of skin thinner than a graft.
Although the latest technology is being used - at a cost of more than £20,000 - Ahmed is still critical and in a coma.
He is under constant armed police guard at the hospital.
Ahmed allegedly crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the terminal building at Glasgow Airport on June 30, a day after police found two unexploded car bombs in central London.
Dramatic pictures of police wrestling him to the ground appeared across the media.
Ahmed was initially treated at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. He was transferred under sedation to Glasgow Royal Infirmary in an intensive care ambulance.
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I wonder if "shark" is halal in Islam?
Certainly...this Islamofascist bomber and a shark have lots in common.
However, the docs should have utilized pig skin instead of shark skin. That would be poetic justice!
What no pig skin ?
Darn
Why waste a perfectly good pig?
Pig is a much better choice. Although both pigs and sharks contribute more to the world than this type of incompetent jackal.
He needs to be fed to the sharks.
One would think there would be better uses for the British taxpayers’ money.
They pulled him out of the car, for crying out loud.
But, if they can use him as a guinea pig, all the better.
"Save my life and I will try to murder you fools yet again."
We’re grafting a freaking laser on his head as well.
The very fact that we are treating this guy just underscores the fact that the west does not fully comprehend the battle we are facing.
His treatment should have consisted of rolling his body in rock salt....
I don’t think it is. I am pretty sure shark isn’t kosher and the rules for the two are similar. I think fish have to have scales to be kosher. Shark doesn’t have scales.
Yes, or a gallon of kerosene/pigfat mix, and a match.
This bastard will get better treatment then the locals, they would have to stand on line for 6 months to see a specialist.
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