Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Orthopedic Surgery Management in a Tertiary Care Hospital, South India

V.V.Narayana Rao; Sailaja B; Manjula Bhanoori; Kereena Chukka

Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Orthopedic Surgery Management in a Tertiary Care Hospital, South India

V. V. Narayana Rao, Sailaja B, Manjula Bhanoori, Kereena Chukka

Abstract :

Diabetic foot ulcer is a foot ulcer that presents any pathology that results directly from any chronic complication of diabetes or diabetes mellitus. Objective of this present study is to organize patient�s Diabetic foot ulcer assessment and orthopedic surgery management, respective role of orthopedic surgery outcomes and elucidate the potential factors that might result in failure of treatment in a tertiary care hospital, Guntur, South India. A total of 120 cases with Diabetic foot amputations from April 2015 to May 2017, aged 30 to 60 years of both the gender were considered for the present study. Of the total 4183 diabetic cases seen at the Department of Orthopedics, Government General Hospital, Guntur, during the study period, 120 (2.8%) had diabetic foot ulcers. In the present study, we noticed that a vital proportion of our diabetic patients with diabetic foot complications delayed surgical treatment, leading to re–admission incidents. These re–admission incidents pose a significant socio–economic burden on the patients. Surgical management is required to address severe diabetic foot infections because they can be life threatening.