diabetic foot
Professor Hassan Ali Al-Zahrani confirmed that there are approximately four thousand cases of foot amputation in Saudi Arabia annually as a result of diabetes, which means approximately ten feet per day, calling for the application of medical standards in the decision to amputate limbs in diabetic patients whose cases reach gangrene, and that this must be done. It should be based on scientific foundations taken by a medical team treating disease cases after making sure of the development of the blood circulation feeding the injured party.
The general supervisor of the Muhammad Hussain Al-Amoudi Chair for Diabetic Foot Research, professor of surgery and consultant vascular surgery at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Professor Hassan bin Ali Al-Zahrani, said the patient with gangrene asks and his family about the part that is amputated, and the answer comes that it should not be rushed to perform an operation Amputation, except after conducting tests to find out the level of blood supply and the location of the narrowing or blockage, where the vascular surgeon can determine the level of amputation, according to what "Okaz" newspaper quoted about him in a report.
The Diabetic Foot Research Chair at the Founder University added a guide that deals with clinical practices in treating diabetic feet, explaining that the diabetic foot is a major problem due to the lack of awareness of diabetic patients, indicating that half of diabetic patients do not know that they have diabetic foot, and that nerve damage leads to Lack of foot feeling and lack of pain when injured, so people with diabetes are at risk of losing their feet more than 25 times as a result of amputation, stressing that awareness, guidance and prevention can significantly reduce diabetic foot cases, and knowing the condition and treating it prevents amputation as well.
