Influencing factors of outcome after lower-limb amputation: a five-year review in a plastic surgical department

Annals of Plastic Surgery
Meng-Chum ChenSin-Daw Lin

Abstract

The crude major lower limb amputation procedure rate is 8.8 per 100,000 of the population per year in Taiwan. From January 2002 to October 2006, patients that received major lower limb amputation in our department were enrolled in this study. Retrospective chart reviews concerning different factors that can affect the eventual postoperative functional status were investigated. Factors that affected the length of hospital stay included duration before amputation (P < 0.001) and renal function (P = 0.045). Phantom limb pain was affected by wound healing time (P = 0.006). Factors that affected the daily prosthesis usage time were initial infection status (P = 0.021), renal function (P = 0.01), patient educational level (P = 0.016), and pretraining waiting time (P = 0.003). The duration of prosthetic training was affected by patient educational level (P = 0.004) and marital status (P = 0.024). In addition, subjective satisfaction about the usage of prosthesis was affected by pretraining waiting time (P = 0.001) and daily prosthesis usage time (P < 0.001). The daily prosthesis usage time was closely related to life quality improvement (P < 0.001) and subjective satisfaction of prosthesis usage (P < 0.001). Despite reported unchangea...Continue Reading

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