This guideline doesn’t change very much that we do already, so I am not including elements that we are all doing already. The new elements for me were:
Assess for Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) in:
- Non-healing Wounds
- Unexplained Leg Pain
- Going to undergo leg or foot interventions
- Compression hosiery (NB it does imply that patients having compression hosiery should have an ABPI done)
Advice given to patients: