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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
PDT20004 - Lower Limb Assessment AND PDT20002 - Orthoses and Bracing
Unit aim
Builds on student’s knowledge of lower limb neurovascular disease and pathomechanics. Students learn about assessment and treatment of the at-risk foot including wound management. Includes engagement with case-based scenarios and placement experiences.
Unit content
Topic 1: Introduction to the high risk foot
- Epidemiology of foot wounds and amputations
- Socioeconomic burden
- Impact on the health care system
Topic 2: Disease processes that leave the foot at risk
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Arthropathies
- Neuropathies
- Obesity
Topic 3: Assessment and risk stratification
- Vascular assessment
- Neurological assessment
- Deformity and footwear assessment
- Biomechanical assessment
- Use of technology in assessment
- Evidence-based guidelines
Topic 4: Wound care
- Normal and abnormal wound healing
- Classifying and describing wounds
- Identifying and treating infection
- Adjunct treatments
- Dressings and wound care products
- Offloading
- Amputation
- Wound prevention
Topic 5: Interprofessional skills
- Patient education
- Referral pathways in managing at-risk feet
- Medical management
- Surgical management
- Allied health management
- Multi-disciplinary team approach
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | critically appraise the evidence pertaining to the assessment and management of the high-risk foot | |||||||
| 2 | assess foot complication risk in at-risk populations | |||||||
| 3 | assess the clinical presentation of the acute and chronic high-risk foot | |||||||
| 4 | apply practical skills to assess, prevent and treat the high-risk foot | |||||||
| 5 | safely and appropriately manage acute foot wounds and those in remission | |||||||
| 6 | demonstrate competence in a clinical multi-disciplinary high-risk foot setting | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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critically appraise the evidence pertaining to the assessment and management of the high-risk foot
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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assess foot complication risk in at-risk populations
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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assess the clinical presentation of the acute and chronic high-risk foot
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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apply practical skills to assess, prevent and treat the high-risk foot
- GA1:
- GA4:
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safely and appropriately manage acute foot wounds and those in remission
- GA4:
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demonstrate competence in a clinical multi-disciplinary high-risk foot setting
- GA1:
- GA4:
Prescribed texts
- Frowen et al., 2010, Neale's Disorders of the Foot, 8th edn, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh; New York.