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The Penn State
Diabetes Foot Clinic:
This site has devoted a page on
Foot ulcers and their management. It outlines a number
of general but useful and important tips on the
treatment of foot ulcers.
Although the information is
rather brief, this page is a well worth visiting.
http://www.celos.psu.edu/dfc/patients_module4.html
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Topics under "a
prevention guide for clinicians" include
neuropathic ulcers and ischemic ulcers. The clinical
presentation, diagnostic evaluation and management of
both these conditions are covered in detail and is an
invaluable resource to download.
http://www.celos.psu.edu/dfc/module9.html
http://www.celos.psu.edu/dfc/module10.html
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The Amputation
Prevention Global Resource Centre site:
contains educational and
research information about footcare in diabetes for
patients and professionals. You can download brochures
designed for the prevention of foot ulcers for your
patient
http://www.diabetesresource.com/html/footcare/edu6p0.htm
or for yourself:
http://www.diabetesresource.com/html/hcpbroch/hcpb01.htm
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In addition there is also
a site for "Grading Wound Severity in Diabetic
Neuropathic Foot ulcers"
http://www.diabetesresource.com/html/edu1.htm
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Types of
ulcers:
The Wound Care Information
Network homepage has devoted a page on different
"types of ulcers" (arterial, venous, pressure,
diabetic and traumatic ulcers). The etiology, appeance
and treatment of each are discussed in fair detail
with nice complimenting pictures.
http://medicaledu.com/etiology.htm
The staging of pressure
ulcer is outlined in:
http://medicaledu.com/staging.htm
AHCP
The Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research has produced guidelines for ulcer
managment which is summerised in this page:
http://medicaledu.com/ahcpr.htm
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Ulcer
documentation:
A straight forward guide to
ulcer documentation is provided at this site from the
wound care information network. This essential
checklist is highly recemmended and necessary for
medical, legal and reimbursement reasons.
http://medicaledu.com/document.htm
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Taking care of
Pressure sores:
Information from this site may
be downloaded in the form of a pamphlet which serves
as a neat guide to the tsaging of pressure sores. It
also contains basic information for the management of
pressure sores.
http://depts
washington.edu/rehab/resources/ps.shml
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Diabetic Foot Ulcers:
Prevention, Diagnosis and Classification
Excellent information on
diabetic ulcers is provided at this site.
The authors of this article are
from the University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio and the Diabetic Foot Research Group, San
Antonio, Texas
http://www.generalsurgery.net/text/Foot%20Ulcer.htm
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Case Histories
Diabetic Ulcer, Mal Perforans:
http://www.amerigel.com/ulcer1.html
(infected neruopathic ulcer on
big toe)
http://www.wireworm.com/snkm/coba.htm
(infected leg)
http://www.acu-heal.com/diabetes.html
(use of accupuncture to heal a
chronic ulcer)
http://www.woundcaregroup.com/html/cs2.htm
(ulcer on fifth metatarsal
head)
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Diabetic Foot
Ulcers
This is a prospective Study of
Risk Factors for the foot ulcer for thoses with
diabetes. Its objective is to identify risk factors
for foot ulceration and lower extremity amputation
associated with diabetes.
http://depts.washington.edu/gim/research/research_dfu.htm
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Procedure for
treatment of diabetic foot ulceration:
Full-Thickness
This site is taken from a
training manual for nurses. It gives basic guidelines
on how to treat a full-thickness ucler. The Step by
step instructions are easy to follow and handy to
print out and stick on the wall.
http://www.skinwound.com/online_training_manual/diabetic_foot_fullthickness.htm
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Click here to see
examples of treatments for Diabetic foot Ulcers.
http://www.caringco.com/ulcer.htm
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Click to view a
picture of a neuropathic ulcer.
http://www.dermatology.org/atlas/atlasdiab.htm
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