Open AccessA ‘hot clinic’ for cold limbs: the benefit of urgent clinics for patients with critical limb ischaemia
Author(s) -
Aazeb Khan,
Maria Hughes,
Michelle Soo Rui Ting,
G. Riding,
James Young Simpson,
Anselm Egun,
Mohamed Banihani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0068
Subject(s) - medicine , amputation , ambulatory , odds ratio , prospective cohort study , cohort , emergency department , diabetes mellitus , emergency medicine , surgery , psychiatry , endocrinology
The national reconfiguration of vascular surgery means that arterial centres serve larger populations with increased demand on resources. Emergency general surgery ambulatory clinics facilitate timely review and intervention, avoiding admission; a critical limb ischaemia (CLI) 'hot clinic' (HC) was implemented to achieve similar for vascular patients. The aim of the study was to determine HC efficacy.