Outpatient Surgical Management of Patients with Complex Wounds Through a Multispecialty Wound Care Clinic:

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics

GregoryLundeen¹ 

关键词: Diabetes;    wounds;    infections;    hospitalization;    outcomes;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2473011417S000270

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Category:DiabetesIntroduction/Purpose:Management of patients with lower extremity wounds is complex and generally attributed to diabetes, neuropathy, and/or peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Often, these patients have poor control of their disease and limited resources. Hospitalizations related to lower extremity wounds are expensive with relatively high length of stay. Much of this time is spent organizing outpatient interventions. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of outpatient surgical management of patients with lower extremity wounds that could lead to hospitalization. We hypothesize that through a multispecialty wound clinic, utilizing wound care specialists, orthotist/prosthetist, infectious disease specialist, and orthopaedic surgeons, at-risk patients could be identified for non-healing wounds through successful outpatient surgical management with preoperative insurance approval of postoperative wound care, offloading devices and antibiotic treatment.Methods:Patients seen thr...

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