Gambaran Proses Radang Luka Postmortem Pada Hewan Coba

: Skin is the largest and heaviest organ in human body. Its role as a barrier and its location at the surface of human body make it susceptible to trauma which in consequence to wound formation. Human body responses to wound by initiating wound healing process. The fundamental aspect of this process consists of four phases: inflammation, initiation, proliferation, and remodeling. In order to obtain sucessfull wound healing all four phases must occur in a proper sequence and a time frame. Several factors have been known to interfere one or more of these phases. In postmortem condition, wound healing can still occur but the process is different compared to those in antemortem condition. A domestic pig was used on account of the similarity in skin structure and histophysiology with human being to observe the inflammatory process in postmortem wounds. This was an experimental descriptive research. Cut wounds were made at the back of the postmortem pig then skin tissues were taken and reserved in series of time to observe histological features of wound healing process. The results showed that an increase of cells\u27 number in dermis layer of the skin was observed 15 minutes after the cut wounds. The increase of cells\u27 number in the first wounds reached its peak at 150 minutes postmortem, meanwhile the increase of cells\u27 number in second wounds reached its peak at 45 minutes postmortem, 90 minutes after the cut wounds were made. Moreover, the increase of cells\u27number could be observed until 3 hours postmortem. It was concluded that the inflammatory process of wound healing observed by increases of cells\u27 number still occured postmortem for a certain time