scholarly journals Different Pain Level Of Diabetes Mellitus Patients With Peripheral Neuropathy Who Have Been Given Tens And Deep Breathing Interventions In Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treatment In Yogyakarta General Hospital

Author(s):  
SATRIYA PRANATA

Introduction : Regular intervention of diabetic� foot ulcers is wound care. Patients often complain of pain when nurse performs wound care. If the pain is not resolved it will result in anxiety feeling. A routine intervention conducted so far is intra-breath in intervention to reduce pain, as it is expected by reducing the pain it will be followed by a decrease of patients� anxiety. Intra-breath intervention has not been able to reduce pain quickly on a moderate scale, especially high-scale so it is necessary to find out other alternative interventions. The available comparative intervention is TENS. The purpose of this study is to know the difference between intra-breath and TENS intervention in the level of anxiety in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy in diabetic foot ulcer treatment. Method : This study used RCT method on 28 respondents divided into 14 intervention groups and 14 control groups. The anxiety of respondents was assessed using Hamilton Scale of Anxiety tools before and after conductin TENS intervention and intra-breath. TENS intervention was given for 15 minutes at a frequency of 100 Hz and intra-breath was given until the wound care intervention was completed. Result : The results showed that there was significant average difference of anxiety level between the use of TENS intervention and the use of intra-breath intervention in intervention group and the control group with value of P <0.05. TENS can reduce the level of anxiety with the value of P 0.000, while intra -breath is able to lower the level of anxiety with the value of P 0.006. Discussion : The respondents admitted the difficulty of experience maximum relaxation when wound care is done, this condition is related to the comfortable position of respondents. When wound care is done, the respondents can not relax maximaly because many of the foot that has ulcers should be padded with a pillow to maximize the treatment. Provision of TENS with a frecuency of 100 Hz is corresponding to the body�s bioelectricity, the patients that receive TENS intervention may become more rrelaxed with endorphine hormone release and decreasing of pain because the electricity blocks pain implans in the neural tube.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younes Najafian ◽  
Zahra M. Khorasani ◽  
Mona N. Najafi ◽  
Shokouh S. Hamedi ◽  
Marjan Mahjour ◽  
...  

Background:Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the most common complications of diabetic patients. Mostly, non-healing DFU leads to infection, gangrene, amputation and even death. High costs and poor healing of the wounds need a new treatment such as alternative medicine. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Aloe vera/ Plantago major gel (Plantavera gel) in healing of DFUMethods:Forty patients with DFU enrolled in a double-blind randomized clinical trial. The patients who were randomly assigned into the intervention group (n = 20), received topical Plantavera gel in addition to the routine cares, whereas the patients in the control group (n = 20), received topical Placebo gel in addition to the routine cares. Intervention was done twice a day for 4 weeks in the both groups. Photography and an evaluation of DFU healing were conducted by a checklist and then were scored at baseline and at the end of each week. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS software.Results:At the end of the study, there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of total ulcer score (P<0.001) and Plantavera gel significantly reduced the ulcer surface comparing with the control group (P=0.039). However, there was not a significant difference between the two groups (P=0.263) in terms of the ulcer depth. During this study, no side effect was observed for Plantavera gel in the intervention group.Conclusion:Topical Plantavera gel seems to be an effective, cheap and safe treatment. Of course, further studies are required to confirm the properties of the wound healing of this gel.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1495
Author(s):  
Yu-Chi Wang ◽  
Hsiao-Chen Lee ◽  
Chien-Lin Chen ◽  
Ming-Chun Kuo ◽  
Savitha Ramachandran ◽  
...  

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a serious complication in diabetic patients and lead to high morbidity and mortality. Numerous dressings have been developed to facilitate wound healing of DFUs. This study investigated the wound healing efficacy of silver-releasing foam dressings versus silver-containing cream in managing outpatients with DFUs. Sixty patients with Wagner Grade 1 to 2 DFUs were recruited. The treatment group received silver-releasing foam dressing (Biatain® Ag Non-Adhesive Foam dressing; Coloplast, Humlebaek, Denmark). The control group received 1% silver sulfadiazine (SSD) cream. The ulcer area in the silver foam group was significantly reduced compared with that in the SSD group after four weeks of treatment (silver foam group: 76.43 ± 7.41%, SSD group: 27.00 ± 4.95%, p < 0.001). The weekly wound healing rate in the silver foam group was superior to the SSD group during the first three weeks of treatment (p < 0.05). The silver-releasing foam dressing is more effective than SSD in promoting wound healing of DFUs. The effect is more pronounced in the initial three weeks of the treatment. Thus, silver-releasing foam could be an effective wound dressing for DFUs, mainly in the early period of wound management.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 238-244
Author(s):  
Ved Prakash

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the clinical profile of patients with diabetic foot ulcer treated conservatively or surgically and effect of risk factors on ulcer healing. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study conducted in tertiary medical teaching hospital where medical records of diabetic patients who were admitted with foot problem were evaluated. All diabetic patients who were aged >18 years and admitted with DFU were included in this study. A structured proforma was used to collect data from the medical record. SPSS version 20.0 was used to perform the statistical analysis. Result: 280 subjects with diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) were evaluated in this study. 71% ulcers were healed where as 11% were persisted unhealed. Patients who were undergone for amputation 12% were minor (Foot only) and 4% were major (above the ankle). A statistically significant association between age, duration of diabetes, glycemic control peripheral neuropathy, and ulcer size were found with diabetic foot ulcer healing. Conclusion: Modifiable factors like good glycemic control, early management of ulcers and early treatment of peripheral neuropathy can influence Diabetic foot ulcer outcomes. Special care should be provided to diabetic subjects who are aged and have longer duration of diabetes. Keywords: Diabetic foot ulcers, ulcer severity, clinical profile, Wagner’s Classification, outcome.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 205031211877395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilker Uçkay ◽  
Benjamin Kressmann ◽  
Sébastien Di Tommaso ◽  
Marina Portela ◽  
Heba Alwan ◽  
...  

Objectives: The initial phase of infection of a foot ulcer in a person with diabetes is often categorized as mild. Clinicians usually treat these infections with antimicrobial therapy, often applied topically. Some experts, however, believe that mild diabetic foot ulcer infections will usually heal with local wound care alone, without antimicrobial therapy or dressings. Methods: To evaluate the potential benefit of treatment with a topical antibiotic, we performed a single-center, investigator-blinded pilot study, randomizing (1:1) adult patients with a mild diabetic foot ulcer infection to treatment with a gentamicin–collagen sponge with local care versus local care alone. Systemic antibiotic agents were prohibited. Results: We enrolled a total of 22 patients, 11 in the gentamicin–collagen sponge arm and 11 in the control arm. Overall, at end of therapy, 20 (91%) patients were categorized as achieving clinical cure of infection, and 2 (9%) as significant improvement. At the final study visit, only 12 (56%) of all patients achieved microbiological eradication of all pathogens. There was no difference in either clinical or microbiological outcomes in those who did or did not receive the gentamicin–collagen sponge, which was very well tolerated. Conclusion: The results of this pilot trial suggest that topical antibiotic therapy with gentamicin–collagen sponge, although very well tolerated, does not appear to improve outcomes in mild diabetic foot ulcer infection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daba Abdissa ◽  
Tesfaye Adugna ◽  
Urge Gerema ◽  
Diriba Dereje

Background. Diabetic foot ulceration is a devastating complication of diabetes mellitus and is a major source of morbidity and mortality. So far, there are few published data on diabetic foot ulcers and its determinants among diabetic patients on follow-up at Jimma Medical Center. Hence, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of diabetic foot ulcer and its determinants among patients with diabetes mellitus at Jimma Medical Center. Methods. A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from June 1 to August 30, 2019, and systematic random sampling technique was applied. The total number of study subjects who participated in the study was 277. Data were collected using an interview-administered structured questionnaire. Data were entered into EpiData version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 20 software for analysis. Analysis was done using descriptive statistics and logistic regression. A variable having a p value of <0.25 in the bivariate model was subjected to multivariate analysis to avoid confounding the variable’s effect. Adjusted odds ratios (AOR) were calculated at 95% confidence interval and considered significant with a p value of ≤0.05. Result. The mean of age of participants was 50.1±14.19 years. More than three-fourths of participants (82.7%) were type 2 DM. The mean duration of diabetic patients was 6.00±5.07 years. The prevalence of diabetic foot ulcer was 11.6% among study participants. According to multivariate logistic regression analysis, previous history of ulceration (AOR=5.77; 95% CI: 2.37, 14.0) and peripheral neuropathy (AOR=11.2; 95% CI: 2.8, 44.4) were independent predictors of diabetic foot ulcer. Conclusion. The prevalence of diabetic foot ulcer was 11.6%. Previous history of ulceration and peripheral neuropathy were associated with diabetic foot ulcer. The health care providers are recommended to thoroughly give emphasis during follow-up of patients who had previous history of ulceration and peripheral neuropathy in order to decrease the occurrence of diabetic foot ulcer.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. K. Chammas ◽  
R. L. R. Hill ◽  
M. E. Edmonds

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) patients have a greater than twofold increase in mortality compared with nonulcerated diabetic patients. We investigated (a) cause of death in DFU patients, (b) age at death, and (c) relationship between cause of death and ulcer type. This was an eleven-year retrospective study on DFU patients who attended King’s College Hospital Foot Clinic and subsequently died. A control group of nonulcerated diabetic patients was matched for age and type of diabetes mellitus. The cause of death was identified from death certificates (DC) and postmortem (PM) examinations. There were 243 DFU patient deaths during this period. Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) was the major cause of death in 62.5% on PM compared to 45.7% on DC. Mean age at death from IHD on PM was 5 years lower in DFU patients compared to controls (68.2 ± 8.7 years versus 73.1 ± 8.0 years,P=0.015). IHD as a cause of death at PM was significantly linked to neuropathic foot ulcers (OR 3.064, 95% CI 1.003–9.366, andP=0.049).Conclusions.IHD is the major cause of premature mortality in DFU patients with the neuropathic foot ulcer patients being at a greater risk.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Risma Anggraeni Yuliastuti ◽  
Megah Andriany ◽  
Eka Putri Y.

The highest diabetic complication percentage is neuropathy (54%) causing diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). The study aimed to know the relationship between diabetic foot ulcer risk levels with diabetic ulcer severity levels. Scope of the study was diabetic wound care, particularly on legs mostly experienced by diabetic patients. The method used was descriptive correlation with cross sectional design. Sampling method was non probability with purposive sampling. Respondent number was 16 persons with inclusion criteria was diabetic patients with ulcer in one leg and no ulcer on another side in the second visitation to a diabetic clinic in Bekasi,Indonesia and agreed to be involved in the study. DFU risk level instrument modified from Diabetes Foot Screening and Risk Stratification Form of New Zealand Society for Study of Diabetes (NZSSD) to measure the DFU degree on legs with no ulcer. Another tool was to measure severity level of legs with ulcer according to Wagner. Data analysis used Kendall’s tau with 0.05 of significance level. The result shows there is no relationship between DFU risk levels with severity degree of diabetic ulcers. From the study, we can conclude that nurses do not need provide specific DFU prevention based on diabetic ulcer severity grade. 


e-CliniC ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 509
Author(s):  
Harris J. Tampubolon ◽  
Adrian Tangkilisan ◽  
Wega Sukanto ◽  
Grace E. C. Korompips

Abstract: Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) prevalence tends to increase every year. Within 30 seconds it is predicted that one leg will be amputated due to DFU. New blood formation triggered by adjuvant extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) on increasing VEGF level is expected to promote DFU healing. This study was aimed to prove whether ESWT as an adjuvant therapy could stimulate DFU healing by increasing VEGF serum level. This was a quasi-experimental study using two groups, the ESWT and the control groups. Two repeated measurements of VEGF levels and PEDIS scores were performed. The ESWT group (17 patients) received the adjuvant ESWT and the control group (7 patients) received conventional wound care therapy. Both groups received 8-time treatment for 4 weeks. Measurements of VEGF levels and PEDIS scores were performed at baseline and after 4 weeks. The results showed that the PEDIS score of the ESWT group decreased, albeit, not in the control group. The VEGF level of the ESWT group significantly increased (mean rank=13.24) compared to the control group (mean rank=7.33). The Wilcoxon signed-ranks test indicated that the PEDIS score in ESWT group had a significant decrease compared to the control group (mean rank=7.50), Z=-3.372, p=<.001. The Pearson correlation test showed a significant relationship between VEGF value and the PEDIS score reduction (81.4%).  In conclusion, the adjuvant ESWT therapy could promote DFU healing (reduced PEDIS score) and increase VEGF levels in DFU patients.Keywords: ESWT; VEGF; diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) Abstrak: Prevalensi ulkus kaki dibetik (UKD) terus meningkat setiap tahunnya dan dalam 30 detik diprediksi terdapat satu kaki yang diamputasi karena UKD. Pembentukan pembuluh darah baru yang dipicu oleh penggunaan adjuvan ESWT terhadap peningkatan kadar VEGF diharapkan dapat memper-cepat penyembuhan UKD. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuktikan terapi adjuvan ESWT dapat meningkatkan kadar VEGF dalam penyembuhan UKD. Jenis penelitan ialah kuasi-eksperimental yang membandingkan dua kelompok perlakuan (ESWT vs kontrol) melalui dua pengukuran berulang terhadap kadar VEGF dan skor pedis. Kelompok ESWT (17 pasien) mendapatkan terapi adjuvan ESWT dan kelompok kontrol (7 pasien) mendapatkan terapi konvensional perawatan luka. Kedua kelompok mendapatkan perlakuan 2 kali per minggu selama 4 minggu. Pengukuran kadar VEGF dan skor pedis pada baseline dan setelah selesai 4 minggu perlakuan. Hasil penelitian mendapatkan penurunan skor PEDIS hanya pada kelompok ESWT (14 pasien), Kadar VEGF kelompok perlakuan didapatkan meningkat bermakna (mean rank=13,24) dibandingkan kelompok kontrol (mean rank=7,33) (p<0,001). Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test mengindikasikan bahwa nilai skor PEDIS kelompok ESWT mengalami penurunan bermakna dibandingkan kelompok kontrol (mean rank=7,0), Z=-3,372, p=<0,001. Uji korelasi Pearson menunjukkan hubungan bermakna antara perubahan nilai VEGF dengan skor pedis (81,4%). Simpulan penelitian ini ialah terapi adjuvan ESWT dapat memicu penyembuhan UKD (menurunkan skor PEDIS) dan meningkatkan kadar VEGF pada pasien UKDKata kunci: ESWT; VEGF; ulkus kaki diabetik (UKD)


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Adiningsih Srilestari ◽  
Irma Nareswari ◽  
Christina Simadibrata ◽  
Tri J.E. Tarigan

Background: Impaired wound healing is a common complication of diabetes. It has complex pathophysiologic mechanisms and often necessitates amputation. Our study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of combined laser-puncture and conventional wound care in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.Methods: This was a double-blind controlled randomized clinical trial on 36 patients, conducted at the Metabolic Endocrine Outpatient Clinic, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, between May and August 2015. Stimulation by laser-puncture (the treatment group) or sham stimulation (the control group) were performed on top of the standard wound care. Laser-puncture or sham were done on several acupuncture points i.e. LI4 Hegu, ST36 Zusanli, SP6 Sanyinjiao and KI3 Taixi bilaterally, combined with irradiation on the ulcers itself twice a week for four weeks. The mean reduction in ulcer sizes (week 2–1, week 3–1, week 4–1) were measured every week and compared between the two groups and analyzed by Mann-Whitney test.Results: The initial median ulcer size were 4.75 (0.10–9.94) cm2 and 2.33 (0.90–9.88) cm2 in laser-puncture and sham groups, respectively (p=0.027). The median reduction of ulcer size at week 2–1 was -1.079 (-3.25 to -0.09) vs -0.36 (-0.81 to -1.47) cm2, (p=0.000); at week 3–1 was -1.70 (-3.15 to -0.01) vs -0.36 (-0.80 to -0.28) cm2, (p=0.000); and at week 4–1 was -1.22 (-2.72 to 0.00) vs -0.38 (-0.74 to -0.57) cm2, (p=0.012).Conclusion: Combined laser-puncture and conventional wound care treatment are effective in accelerating the healing of diabetic foot ulcer.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shimpo Aoki ◽  
Lauren R Bayer ◽  
Dennis P Orgill

Thirteen percent of diabetic patients will develop a foot ulcer, often associated with infection, vascular disease and biomechanical changes. Limb salvage offers the potential to restore function but does not correct the underlying metabolic disturbance. We review the surgical approach to diabetic foot infections including debridement, skin grafts, local flaps and a variety of new technologies. A comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is beneficial to optimize outcomes. The full range of reconstructive options available to plastic surgeons may be used in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. This review has 5 figures, 2 tables, and 20 references. Key words: Diabetic Foot Infection (DFI), Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU), Diabetes Mellitus (DM), wound care, foot infection, bacterial infection, surgical management, neuropathy, surgery of the lower extremity, deformities


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