Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Resident diabetes blogger Margaret Stubbs writes about technological advances in measuring glucose levels and reducing the risks of foot ulcers
Happy New Year to you all - hopefully it is that, despite the wind and the rain! How many of your patients have had to have some sort of amputation, either toes, part of a foot, whole foot or lower leg?
Sadly I now have two patients; one joined the practice having already had four toes on his right foot amputated, and a subsequent postoperative infection. The second person came to me very unwell, with an infection ascending from his right foot. It appears that he has now had two toes amputated from that foot and has come home with a VAC dressing. It somehow can feel as though we have failed, when our patients reach this point in their diabetes journey.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/foot-ulcers-diabetes-0
Happy New Year to you all - hopefully it is that, despite the wind and the rain! How many of your patients have had to have some sort of amputation, either toes, part of a foot, whole foot or lower leg?
Sadly I now have two patients; one joined the practice having already had four toes on his right foot amputated, and a subsequent postoperative infection. The second person came to me very unwell, with an infection ascending from his right foot. It appears that he has now had two toes amputated from that foot and has come home with a VAC dressing. It somehow can feel as though we have failed, when our patients reach this point in their diabetes journey.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/foot-ulcers-diabetes-0