major amputations
A study of Factors influencing major amputations in diabetic foot
... Aggressive removal of the devitalized tissues is done by sharp scissors and scalpels. Extent of debridement should be sufficient enough to reach all margins of infection both in the deeper plane and also in the ...
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Treatment of Charcot Neuroarthropathy and osteomyelitis of the same foot: a retrospective cohort study
... went major amputation, but this rate can be expected to be lower in less severe cases that can be effectively man- aged in an outpatient setting such as ...of major amputations we reported in cases ...
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Proximal major limb amputations – a retrospective analysis of 45 oncological cases
... proximal major amputations in patients treated for sar- coma was ...proximal major amputation (62%) and were treated with palliative inten- tion, 31 had already received chemotherapy and radia- tion, ...
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Comparison of thiamine status in type II diabetes mellitus with and without lower extremity amputations: A prospective case control study
... Background: Diabetes Mellitus is quickly gaining the status of an epidemic in our country. The complications arising out of diabetes are one of the commonest problems encountered in the surgical outpatient clinics and ...
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Predictors of major lower limb amputation in type 2 diabetic patients referred for hospital care with diabetic foot syndrome
... underwent major amputations with an overall rate of major amputa- tion of ...of major lower limb amputations: duration of diabetes ≥15 years, HbA1c ≥8%, patients on insulin, with ...
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Reducing major lower extremity amputations after the introduction of a multidisciplinary team in patient with diabetes foot ulcer
... of major amputations, other potential mediators such as compliance of treatment, and prognostic evaluation such as hospitalization ex- penses and DFU mortality were not evaluated in the present ...
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USP Compliance: A Hazardous Drug Safe Handling PPE Toolkit for Infusion Nurses
... lower-extremity amputations annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], ...of major amputations are caused initially by a foot ulcer (Brownrigg, Apelqvist, Bakker, Schaper, & ...
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What are the key conditions associated with lower limb amputations in a major Australian teaching hospital?
... Methods: Lower extremity amputation cases performed at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane, Australia) between July 2006 and June 2007 were identified through the relevant hospital discharge dataset (n = 197). All ...
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Characteristics of contralateral plantar pressure distribution in Diabetic patients with and without a prosthetic foot: An observational study
... limb amputations due to diabetic complications ...the major cause of lower limb amputations in ...of amputations in diabetic patients was found to be ...underwent major ...
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Quality of life of diabetes amputees following major and minor lower limb amputations
... Patients age ranged from 38 to 85 years old (median 55, interquartile range 11) with 52 (55.3%) of the patients were male. Nearly 54% of the patients were unemployed. Majority of the patients were Malays (89.4%), ...
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Life after conflict-related amputation trauma: a clinical study from the Gaza Strip
... extremity amputations and were cur- rently attending physical rehabilitation, nine out of ten had major amputations (85%) with unilateral lower extremity amputations as the most common type ...
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Risk Factors Associated with Amputation Free Survival in Patient with Diabetic Foot Ulcers
... 15.9) months. One hundred sixty-five (95.4%) patients were type 2 diabetes, and 80 (46.2%) patients were treated with insulin injection. The mean duration of diabetes was 18.9 (range, 0 to 42, SD±11.4) years. Fifty-nine ...
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Predictors of in-hospital mortality following major lower extremity amputations in type 2 diabetic patients using artificial neural networks
... Several studies have evaluated specific comorbid dis- eases associated with reduced survival after major LEA [30–35, 38, 40]. Patients who needed major amputations suffered from a more severe ...
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Health concerns of veterans with high-level lower extremity amputations
... Regaining functional independence is the most import- ant aim of rehabilitation programs in lower limb amputees [76, 77]. Wearing prosthesis following a hemipelvectomy improves individual’s balance and mobility, muscular ...
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Trauma-related amputations among children in Ghana
... The current study is a part of a more extensive review of amputations in a major referral hospital. This retrospective descriptive study was carried out at Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), which is a ...
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Comparing the surgical timelines of military and civilians traumatic lower limb amputations
... experience for treating this injury group. The variability between military and civilian trauma has given clinicians at this centre an irreplaceable breadth of clinical experience. Ensuring the dissemi- nation of this ...
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Review Article Anti-cytokine and anti-endotoxin therapies for meningococcal disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Secondary outcomes included: burden of disease on the family and the caregivers; important long-term complications such as amputations, skin grafts or persistent neurological defects inc[r] ...
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Impact of high prevalence of pseudomonas and polymicrobial gram-negative infections in major sub-/total traumatic amputations on empiric antimicrobial therapy: a retrospective study
... of major sub-/total traumatic amputations continue to represent a clinical challenge due to high infection rates and serious ...with major traumatic amputations (n = 16) and subtotal ...
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Outcome analysis in lower limb amputations following trauma
... that amputations of lower limbs occur in significantly greater numbers than do amputations of upper ...limb amputations not only affects people ability to walk, also the quality of life and body ...
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Rehabilitation and prosthetics post-amputation
... The level of amputation impacts on the patient’s predicted mobility and gait performance. A transtibial amputation is the most common level of amputation, comprising 52% of lower limb amputations in the UK each ...
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