Clinical Case Database / Category: Patient Management
Dealing with diabetes foot problems in the acute setting: assessment & management
Publication details
Dr Ahmad Abou-Saleh, Dr Masud Haq, Dr Dennis Barnes
Foundation Years Journal, volume 8, issue 5, p.24 (123Doc Education, London, May 2014)
Abstract
Diabetic foot disease is common and is often poorly managed leading to adverse complications. Every diabetes patient admitted to hospital should have both feet inspected and carefully examined. Any features of inflammation, ulceration or deformity should lead to a prompt referral to a member of the multidisciplinary diabetes foot care team. This will help ensure patients receive the best possible treatment early, leading to a shorter length of stay and a reduction in possible amputation.
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Authors
Dr Ahmad Abou-Saleh
Specialist Registrar, Diabetes & Endocrinology Department, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Tonbridge Road, Pembury, Kent, TN2 4QJ.
abousaleh@doctors.org.uk
Dr Masud Haq
Consultant Physician, Diabetes/Endocrine Department, The Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Tonbridge Road, Pembury, Kent, TN2 4QJ.
masudhaq@nhs.net
Dr Dennis Barnes
Consultant Physician, Diabetes/Endocrine Department, The Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Tonbridge Road, Pembury, Kent, TN2 4QJ.
dbarnes2@nhs.net
References
1) Ramsey SD, Newton K, Blough D, McCulloch DK, Sandhu N, Reiber GE, Wagner EH. Incidence,
outcomes, and cost of foot ulcers in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care 1999; 22:382-87.
2) National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Diabetic Foot Problems: inpatient management of diabetic foot problems. Clinical guideline 119. London: NICE, 2013. Available from http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13416/53556/53556.pdf.
3) Edmonds ME Foster AVM, Managing the Diabetic Foot, 3rd Edition. Wiley Blackwell 2014.
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