Discharge
Considerations for admission to medicine or surgery for ulcers:
Patients with significant occlusive arterial disease require specialist assessment of the severity
For treatment of underlying medical problems such as rheumatoid arthritis, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, etc.
Ulcers with mixed etiologies, diabetic ulcers
Suspected malignant ulcers
Nonhealing ulcers (a minimum of at least 6 months of compression and local wound care followed by reassessment of<unk>  function should be done before operative plastic surgical intervention is considered)
Rapid deterioration of the ulcer
Recurrent ulcers
Reduced ABPI <0.8 or increased ABPI >1.0
Infected foot
Ischemic foot
Patients with significant occlusive arterial disease require specialist assessment of the severity
For treatment of underlying medical problems such as rheumatoid arthritis, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, etc.
Ulcers with mixed etiologies, diabetic ulcers
Suspected malignant ulcers
Nonhealing ulcers (a minimum of at least 6 months of compression and local wound care followed by reassessment of<unk>  function should be done before operative plastic surgical intervention is considered)
Rapid deterioration of the ulcer
Recurrent ulcers
Reduced ABPI <0.8 or increased ABPI >1.0
Infected foot
Ischemic foot
Venous stasis
Cellulitis
Venous cutdown
Deep venous thrombosis
Heat edema
Critical limb ischemia
Venous thromboembolism
Peripheral artery disease