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Injecting Into the Groin: Aim to Improve IV Drug Users Care
In my third year of my degree I had a four week placement with a GP in Heywood. During this placement I was introduced to Dr Taylor, as I attended his drug clinics because I have an interest in the area.
At Dr Taylors GP practice there are around 160 IV drug users. Drug users suffer massively with problems of venous hypertension in their lower limbs due to injecting into their groin. Such problems include deep vein thromboses, infection, venous insufficiency, and consequently ulcers, which may result in amputation of the limb.
Firstly, I will design a questionnaire to find out which of the patients inject into their groin, and how often they do so. I will then collaborate the results, and take photographic evidence of the effects of injecting into the groin. I aim to meet with an Interventional Radiologist, at Wythenshawe Hospital, and a Vascular Surgeon at Royal Oldham Hospital, to see if showing them my findings will help to improve the care they give such patients.
I propose that using the skills of the interventional radiologist, stenting the veins in the legs of the patients would improve blood flow, and consequently reduce the number of problems the patients experience.
Project Team: Chloe Goodall Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
Funding year: 2009
Keywords: undergraduate research drug users medicine
