Book Title: Wound Care Nursing
Chapter 14: Diabetes
Overview:
- Focuses on the relationship between diabetes and foot ulcers
- Outlines the various types of foot ulcers
- Discusses neuropathic ulceration; its causes and how best to assess it
- Covers ischaemic ulceration; its causes and assessment
- Provides guides for managing foot ulceration using surgery, dressings and more
Description:
Diabetes interferes with wound healing at several levels, and the healing of wounds in people with diabetes is often unpredictable. This chapter explores diabetes and wound care with an emphasis on the common problem of foot ulcers in diabetes.
Topics:
- Diabetes and foot ulcers
- Types of foot ulcers
- Neuropathic ulceration
- Incidence
- Causes
- Assessment of peripheral neuropathy
- Ischaemic ulceration
- Infection
- Signs and symptoms of infection
- Investigations
- Antibiotic therapy
- Osteomyelitis
- Management of foot ulceration
- Activities of daily living
- Dressings
- Reduction of pressure
- Surgery
- Other technologies
Speaker / Author:
Tazmin Clingan
is a registered nurse and podiatrist who holds bachelor’s degrees in nursing and applied science (podiatry). After working in private practice, Tazmin joined the Multidisciplinary High Risk Foot Clinic in the Diabetes Centre of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney, Australia). Her role includes the identification and management of high-risk foot problems in people with diabetes. Tazmin is also involved with the Diabetes Amputation Prevention Program through which she delivers education to nurses and general practitioners about foot disease in people with diabetes.
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