Dermato Fight Club
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I feel like a lot of the time a total contact cast is the only thing that will work in the patient that does not want to face the fact that if they continue to walk their wound will note heal.
I recently closed a wound that had been opened about a year (on a former nurse) in about 6 weeks with a TCC. After it was closed I recommended referral to the nearest residency program for a charcot reconstruction (sub cuboid ulcer) or live in a CROW walker. She fought with me stating she never had a charcot on this foot and she didn't want any surgery or to live in a CROW walker.
She came back 3 weeks later with the wound opened again.
I looked at my reimbursement for a TCC and it is about $140. The TCC system that I use (TCC-ez) costs about that much. Maybe like 10 dollars cheaper.
I see that she is on my schedule tomorrow but I really do not want to continue applying the TCC on her without any financial benefit. I find it frustrating that the one thing that actually works in these patients we are discouraged from doing duetot the financial repercussions.
Is anyone doing anything different that I am not?
Should I just refer to the nearest wound care center?
Should I guess be applying a 1500 skin substitutes with the TCC?
I recently closed a wound that had been opened about a year (on a former nurse) in about 6 weeks with a TCC. After it was closed I recommended referral to the nearest residency program for a charcot reconstruction (sub cuboid ulcer) or live in a CROW walker. She fought with me stating she never had a charcot on this foot and she didn't want any surgery or to live in a CROW walker.
She came back 3 weeks later with the wound opened again.
I looked at my reimbursement for a TCC and it is about $140. The TCC system that I use (TCC-ez) costs about that much. Maybe like 10 dollars cheaper.
I see that she is on my schedule tomorrow but I really do not want to continue applying the TCC on her without any financial benefit. I find it frustrating that the one thing that actually works in these patients we are discouraged from doing duetot the financial repercussions.
Is anyone doing anything different that I am not?
Should I just refer to the nearest wound care center?
Should I guess be applying a 1500 skin substitutes with the TCC?