Title:

The foot at risk

Description:

This session builds on the Essentials of the Foot at Risk session to enable Tier 2 level knowledge and skills set out in The National Wound Care Core Capabilities Framework for England. It will introduce you to the 'at-risk foot' and explain how to assess the foot and identify foot disease complications. This session will also help you to recognise how to treat these complications. For the purpose of this learning session, the foot is from below the ankle. This session will be of benefit to health and care practitioners working in settings where there are people with, or at, risk of lower limb wounds.

Hierarchy:

Wound Care Education for the Health and Care Workforce > Tier 2 > The foot at risk

Keywords:

foot, feet, foot disease, foot disease complications, foot pain, foot ulcer, lower limb wound, at-risk-foot, foot at risk, ulceration, amputation, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), neurological conditions, neurological assessment, neuropathy, diabetes, diabetic foot problem, connective tissue disease, chronic kidney disease, foot deformity, tissue loss, gangrene, intermittent claudication, chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), non-critical limb ischaemia, critical limb ischaemia, femoral pulse, popliteal pulse, foot pulses, ankle brachial pressure index, ABPI, Edinburgh claudication questionnaire, 6 Ps, vascular team, acute limb ischaemia, Doppler, Doppler insonation, toe pressure test, toe systolic pressure, WIfI system, paraesthesia, Charcot, peripheral neuropathy, Semmes-Weinstein Monofilament test

Created:

18 Mar 2022

Updated:

12 Sep 2024