Peripheral vascular assessment and its role in predicting wound healing potential.
Local perfusion is a critical factor in wound healing with substantially greater perfusion levels necessary to support healing than those required to maintain viable intact tissues. Clinical observations alone are not sufficiently reliable to assess healing potential particularly in the patient with known vascular compromise. This article reviews the more common noninvasive techniques for evaluating peripheral circulation and wound healing potential in the distal lower extremity.
Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
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D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D010991:Plethysmography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*