BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Burn surgeons at Baton Rouge General are using a new spray-on skin technology on nearly every burn patient, making the healing process faster and less painful while reducing scarring.

The technology, called RECELL, uses a patient’s own skin mixed with common IV fluid that gets sprayed back on the patient’s body, acting as a natural bandage.

Dr. Christina Sharon, a burn surgeon at Baton Rouge General, said the technology dramatically reduces the size of donor sites needed for skin grafts.

“If you talk to anybody who’s been burned and had surgery from it, that donor site is the most painful,” Dr. Sharon said. “It doesn’t matter how much percentage that patient has been burned. The donor sites are really sensitive. They bleed. They’re painful. It’s another scar on

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