Diabetic foot

What is diabetic foot

• Ulcer from peripheral vascular disease

• Infection

• Ulcer and wound at foot with or without diabetis

• Patological foot as a complication of diabetes

who should be screened for diabetic foot

• diabetis patient for more than 20 years

• all diabetic patient

• patient with diabetic foot ulcer

• everyone more than 40years old

what is active foot problem? / foot at risk ?

• ulceration

• infection

• limb ischemia

• gangrene

• acute charcoat neuropathy

Below are the common risk factor to develop diabetic foot ulcer EXCEPT

• Poor hba1c control

• Deformity over the foot

• Monofilament test positive

• Proper diabetic shoe

Foot ulcers are most common under your big toes and the balls of your feet, and they can affect your feet down to the bones.

• True

• False

A condition that occurs when body tissue dies. It is caused by a loss of blood supply due to an underlying illness, injury, and/or infection.

• Gangrene

• Foot ulcer

What is the percentage of Diabetic patients who will develop leg and foot ulcers?

• 15%

• 17%

• 13%

• 25%

Patophysiology of dfu

• Neuropathy

• Angiopathy

• infection

• Trauma

Common classification for diabetic foot ulcer EXCEPT

• King's

• Texas

• Wagner

• Prince

Texas classification have extra advantage from wagner classification

• Provide level of infection

• Include peripheral vascular status

• Severity of infection

• Allow better choice of antibiotics