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Wound Care, Limb Preservation and Amputation
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MARK GOETCHEUS, BSN, RN, CWON, CFCN, CDE
WOUND, OSTOMY, LIMB PRESERVATION, & AMPUTEE SERVICES
HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER
May 25th, 2019
CONFIDENTIAL – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
DISCLOSUREMark Goetcheus, BSN, RN
• No relevant financial relationship reported
Wound, Ostomy, Limb Preservation, & Amputation Services
Mark Goetcheus Holly VanceNikki OertingBrandon Ibarra
Limb Preservation & Amputation Services
Surgical Consolation
• Salvage vs amputation
• Coordination: LP surgical service
• Vascular interventions
• Wound care plan
Amputee Education:
• Physical Therapy/ Occupational Therapy
• Prosthetics & Orthotics
• Rehab Psychology
• Rehab Medicine
• Amputee Support Group
Limb Preservation Surgical Services
• Multidiscipline
• Vascular, Podiatry, Rehab medicine , Plastics, Nursing, Wound Care
• Continuum of care
• Inpt to outpt
• 65% reduction in major amputations versus previous 5 years
• Responsive vascular interventions
• Minor amputations
Limb Preservation & Amputation Services
Physical Therapy & Occupational Therapy • Exercises
• ADL’s
• Equipment
• Home, wheel chair
• Diabetes/ LE Neuropathy: foot care education
• Fall prevention
• Phantom Pain
• Guided imagery, mirror box
• Goal is to start pre-op
Limb Preservation & Amputation Services
Prosthetics & Orthotics
• Dressing plan
• Serial casting, suture removal, retention/shrinker socks
• Purpose of a knee immobilizer( BKA)
• Recovery timelines
• When will my get prosthetic?
• Amputation prevention
• Offloading shoe or boot• Education: daily foot exam
Limb Preservation & Amputation Services
Rehabilitation Psychology
Coping adjustment
• Anxiety, depression, SUD
• Pain relief strategies : Acute, Chronic, phantom
• Mirror box tx
• Resources
• Where do you go when you get stuck?
• Early intervention
• Critical Limb Ischemia
Limb Preservation & Amputation Services
Rehabilitation Medicine
• Goal setting
• Realistic
• Discuss:
• Recovery plan• What to expect
• When do I walk?
Limb Preservation & Amputation Services Outpatient Rehab Clinic
Salvage vs amputation Consultation
• Should I get an amputation?
• Patients Goals
• Multidiscipline approach:• Rehab, Podiatrist, Ortho,
Vascular, nursing
• Offloading, dynamic braces, wound care
Post amputation treatment
• Multidiscipline approach:• Rehab
• Prosthetist
• surgeon
• wound care
• Physical Therapy
• Psych Rehab
• Pain Relief Services
• Vocational Rehab
Lower Extremity Amputation Clinical Pathway (Above, Through and Below Knee)
• standardize treatment
• pre-op clinic visit to 10 weeks post-
operation
• includes trauma related procedure
• Multidiscipline approach
• Patient education