Amputation for vascular disease

摘要: Amputation for peripheral ischaemia still has a depressingly high early and late mortality, morbidity the end result are usually less than satisfactory. Individual surgeons probably see too few amputees to treat them with maximal efficiency, these patients create large burden on beds resources. There is room improvement in all aspects of our management amputees. Primary healing rates might be better heroic attempts obtain distal amputation. Sepsis lessened by use prophylactic antibiotics. Tight bandaging intra-operative fitting prostheses undesirable. Simple tests skin blood pressure may aid prediction degree at proposed level limb section chances healing. The mortality merits study methods designed reduce it such as long term anticoagulation.