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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SHARK.....the other white meat?
Yeah, I'm crying in my beer as I write. Hey, wait a minute...I don't even drink beer ;-)
Shark! Britain’s equivalent of the ACLU should sue immediately. Snake is obviously their natural donor.
No waste. Eat the pig, pigskin the mussie! Blackbird.
‘The latest hi-tech treatments for a terrorist. This from a government that rations health care for its own citizens. Lovely.’
The British government doesn’t ration healthcare for it’s citizens, it treats everyone as quickly as possible within the budgets available. If that is not quick enough for you, you have a perfect right to pay privately for treatment or use your private health insurance if you prefer.
Does America not treat it’s enemies when they are injured?
We do.
Compare to Proverbs 25:21-22 and Romans 12:20
We only do it to heap coals of fire upon his head. Although this one gave himself a pretty good head start...
Yea, they say they are using shark skin but it’s relly pig skin.
Better yet, if he’s still in a coma let him wake up so he can enjoy all the pain like a true brave terroist should.
Touche! Forgot about them there rinds! I should be taken out back and shot, really. How’s about a good ole shalacking with burned off fat? Blackbird.
Wouldn't be politically correct. Might "inflame" the Islamics.
Sorry 'bout that. :)
That would get PETA on your case. Cruel and Unusual Treatment of a living fossil.
A quick check on line shows that Shark and all other fish are halal. They don’t even have to perform the ritual slaughter. Just Google “shark halal”
Poor shark.
Ha, you’re right. My apologies to the sharks!
In a Socialist health care system with a fixed budget? Yep, some Brit is doing without. I hope the UK armed forces have their own system. Socialist too, just as ours is, but at least it would mean that some solider isn't being denied treatment because of treating this flaming idiot.
Ah, a cheery thought, It's early yet.
But you forgot to specify a "drug resistant" staph infection.
In Revelation 6 when inflation is out of this world, God specifically tells the angel not to touch the wine.
Hmmmmm. Good point.
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