METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICIENCY IN TREATING CRITICAL ISCHEMIA OF INFERIOR LIMBS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, surgery.

SUBSTANCE: one should evaluate clinical state of a patient and as objective parameters one should calculate rheological and brachio-malleolar indices, detect fractional tension of oxygen in capillary blood. At observing clinical improvement accompanied by increased rheological and brachio-malleolar indices by more than 0.1, increased blood saturation with oxygen by more than 10 mm mercury column one should state upon a "good" therapeutic effect. At detecting clinical improvement accompanied by the increase of either one or several objective parameters, or if dynamics of these values is not available - effect should be considered as a "satisfactory" one. At kept ischemic pain at rest without decrease of its intensity, impossibility to keep a limb in horizontal position for a long period of time, the absence of positive dynamics of trophic disorders, at kept ischemic edema and at no alterations in objective parameters - should be determined as "no dynamics". In case of enhanced ischemic pain and edema of foot, at progressing necrotic alterations in foot - one should detect "deterioration" of patient's state. The method increases the number of diagnostic means.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of evaluation.

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