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Assessment and conservative management of diabetic foot
Mr Barlow-Kearsley discusses the assessment involved in diabetic foot and some aspects of the conservative management, including the use of casts, surgical debridement and reconstructive surgery.
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picking up from that, what are the aspects that make up the assessment of a diagnosis? Essentially you would need to take a good medical history, you'd need to do a full examination which would include the neurological status, vascular status, and then the status of the foot and then design or involve an MDT plan to manage the patient's foot. That would either be done conservatively i.e. in an off-weight cast, debridement of wounds and often reconstructive surgery of the foot in order to create a functional foot that is able to allow the patient to function with almost near normality.
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