RESEARCH ON DIABETIC ULCER.

RESEARCH REPORT Topic: A 72 year old, diabetic female patient is being treated for a venous ulcer on their right leg. Treatment has included antibiotic medications to treat the underlying infection. Patient is currently wrapping her legs to promote venous compression and ulceration healing. Leg swelling has decreased, but ulcer healing is currently not improving and she is questioning whether the wrapping of her leg is stopping the ulcer from healing. 1. Identifying an area of practice for inquiry (50 Words) 2. Background: Write a brief background (about 150 words) about the area of practice by referring to current literature

Running head: Research on diabetic ulcer
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The patient is suffering from venous ulcer and is diabetic and our point of research is
to understand the consequences of compression therapy that the person is undergoing.
Compression therapy is known to show healing property by accelerating capillary flow
(Amin, 2016) . The person is still not being fully cured because of diabetes as they affect
nerves and slow down the healing property.
Compression therapy works by decreasing the inflammatory cytokines and increase in
capillary flow. Hence, the patients leg swelling decreased. Diabetes makes wound dry slower
and affects the blood circulation. In diabetic patients tract under the skin harbours an abscess
thus slowing the ulcer and pus drying. The risk factors in old age increases and the only way
to heal is to lower the glucose levels otherwise may lead to severe complications. Though the
swelling is removed, there are some contraindications related to compression therapy like
septic phlebitis or even heart failure. High blood sugar increases inflammation in the cells of
body and slows down the machinery of immune system (Andriessen et al ., 2017). These are
the reasons that slows down the healing of venous ulcer. The fighter cells are unable to fight
against infections and thus may impose several other complications like leg amputation.
Therefore we may conclude that diabetes stops the healing of wounds and the ulcer in the
patient.

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References:
Amin, N., & Doupis, J. (2016). Diabetic foot disease: from the evaluation of the “foot at risk”
to the novel diabetic ulcer treatment modalities. World journal of diabetes, 7(7), 153.
Andriessen, A., Apelqvist, J., Mosti, G., Partsch, H., Gonska, C., & Abel, M. (2017).
Compression therapy for venous leg ulcers: risk factors for adverse events and
complications, contraindications–a review of present guidelines. Journal of the
European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 31(9), 1562-1568.