Amputation in vascular patients
Author - Dr Tracey Wall
Date published - 21 September 2011
Preoperative assessment/risk
- Preoperative optimization
- Timing of surgery
Multidisciplinary management
- Physiotherapy
- Rehabilitation
- diabetology
- Awareness of QIP and it’s recommendations
Perioperative
- General anaesthesia
- Regional anaesthesia techniques: epidural, spinal, nerve bocks
Post operative
- pain relief options
- nerve blocks
- sciatic catheters
- spinal opioids
