BACKGROUND Lower extremity amputation results in significant global morbidity and mortality. Australia appears to have a paucity of studies investigating lower extremity amputation. The primary aim of this retrospective study was to investigate key conditions associated with lower extremity amputations in an Australian population. Secondary objectives were to determine the influence of age and ...

background: care of brain dead donors is complex, critical, and sensitive and has a direct and positive impact on the end result of organ and tissue transplantation process. this study describes the nurses’ experiences of care of brain dead donors in intensive care units (icu). materials and methods: this research was performed by phenomenological method that is a qualitative approach. purposiv...

Until the cause of organic occlusive vascular diseases is definitely estab­ lished, and prophylactic measures taken to prevent them; until lipid metabolism can be controlled to pre­ vent atherosclerotic plaques from ad­ hering to the intima of arteries; until thrombosis and embolism can be pre­ vented and it will be routine to excise arterial segments and replace them with homografts or plastic...

Article points 1. Foot ulceration is a common and serious complication of diabetes and can lead to amputation; approximately 50% of all lower limb amputations in the UK are caused by diabetes. 2. There are five main foot problems that are caused by diabetes: Painless and painful neuropathy; peripheral vascular disease; foot ulceration; Charcot neuroarthropathy and non-diabetes related pathologi...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors that influence survival after diabetes-related amputations. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We abstracted medical records of 1,043 hospitalized subjects with diabetes and a lower-extremity amputation from 1 January to 31 December 1993 in six metropolitan statistical areas in south Texas. We identified mortality in the 10-year period after amputation from death certif...

OBJECTIVES Much attention has been given to lower extremity amputations that occur more than 90 days after injury, but little focus has been given to analogous upper extremity amputations. The purpose of this study was to determine the reason(s) for desired amputation and the common complications after amputation for those combat-wounded service members who underwent late upper extremity amputa...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated whether the incidence of amputations in one German city (Leverkusen, population approximately 160,000) had decreased between 1990 and 2005. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS From all three hospitals in the city, we obtained complete lists of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations in 1990-1991 and 1994-2005. Only the first observed amputation in residents of Leverkusen was counte...

conclusions increasing dependency in adl is accompanied by increasing dependency in iadl. in the past, the duty of health care providers was saving the life of veterans due to injuries while at present, because these injuries occurred in young and healthy individuals, the need for increased function is being highlighted. background the iran-iraq imposed war lasted eight years and was one of the...