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Dear all
does anybody routinely take blood sampoles in people with diabetes and foot ulcers if so what are you looking at and why? Trying to think up a novel reserach project for my doctorate! Kim

I do not have a driect answer, but ask the question "If you did this how would the outcome of the treatment be changed?"

Kim

Rather than think of a "novel" project, why not try to "prove" that waht we do anecdotally works?

This would assist you profession immensely, and cement our position as providers of expert diabetic foot care.

Take a lead from David Armstrong, Craig Payne et al, and do an outcomes assessment of a form of mechanical, surgical or other treatment that we suspect "works".

The only practical purpose of taking blood for an active ulcer that I can see is to look for markers of infection, and this has been well explored me thinks...

LL

Dear Both
I am currently exploring raised inflammatory markers and possibly anaemia for early diagnosis and so treatment of osteomyeilitis - so far no literature actually saying that so I will keep looking to see if it has been definitively stated. Doctoral work needs to be 'novel' unfortunately. Kim