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Diabetic Foot Clinic
About 3-5% of diabetes patients have diabetes related foot problems including foot ulcers. As foot withstands the maximum pressure per unit area , capillary network in the sole tends to remain compressed for a significant length of time. In a diabetic patient, this assumes critical importance owing to associated vasculopathy and peripheral neuropathy. Foot ulcers can be quite disabling and diabetes is the commonest cause on nontraumatic amuputation. A large number of these ulcers can be treated on an outpatient basis in a Diabetic Foot Clinic and proper monitoring can save off a potentially crippling amputation. This system of Diabetic Foot Clinic has been vogue in most of the regional NHS Trust Hospitals in the UK and the quality of patient care has been comparable to the impatient care of the diabetic foot. We follow this model in the Diabetic Foot Clinic in Peerless Hospital.
| At Peerless Hospital Diabetic Foot Clinic , the patient will be | - Assessed by the multididcipliary team consisting of Consultant Diabetologist, General / Vascular Surgeon / Orthopedic Surgeon / Staff Nurse of the Foot Clinic.
- Subjected to routine clinical, laboratory and radiological investigations.
- Having, where applicable, plantar (foot) pressures measured by computerized foot scan. Depending upon the planter pressures properly designed footwear will be offered to the patients.
- Provided with necessary therapeutic interventions.
- Patients will be subsequently reviewed at periodic intervals.
| Remember :
Timely treatment of an early cellulitis can prevent a crippling amputation.
The shoes should fit the foot and not the other way around. | |
