Wound Care — Unit 5: Pressure, Diabetic Foot & Vascular Wounds

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FROM MY PT SCHOOL NOTES · WOUND CARE · UNIT 5 OF 6

Pressure, Diabetic Foot & Vascular Wounds

Distinguish pressure-related injury from other skin damage, evaluate neuropathic diabetic-foot risk and understand why venous versus arterial assessment changes care.

Chapters

Choose a lesson and consider the reasoning behind the clinical decision.

WOUND CARE UNIT 05 · 3 CHAPTERS
17How do you identify and prevent pressure injury?Pressure, shear and classification18What makes a diabetic foot wound high risk?Neuropathy, perfusion and offloading19How do you distinguish venous and arterial wound patterns?Perfusion, edema and compression cautions

Keep this question in mind

Can the tissue injury be traced to pressure, impaired perfusion, edema or mixed causes before choosing treatment?

Current context: 2026 International Pressure Injury Guideline and IWGDF offloading recommendations.

Personal PT-school notes with separate, dated current-practice context. These educational chapters are not individual clearance, wound staging, compression, debridement or device-management instructions. Use professional training, current facility policy and patient-specific orders.

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