Specifics of nursing care for patients with diabetic foot syndrome undergoing larvae Lucilia sericata treatment - from the perspective of the patient

Abstract The bachelor thesis titled Specific Aspect of Nursing Care of Patients with Diabetic Foot Syndrome Undergoing Treatment with Lucilia Sericata Larvae ? From Patients? Perspective is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part focuses on the historical development of Lucilia sericata larvae in medicine, the present use of larvae in medicine, and the analysis of the standard surgical treatment procedure and the larval therapy. The following section of the theoretical part describes the role of nurses in the standard surgical treatment and the larval therapy. The thesis also analyses diabetes mellitus and its complications, and especially the diabetic foot syndrome. The first objective of the thesis has been to determine how much information patients have about the treatment with Lucilia sericata larvae. The second objective has been to present the specific aspects of the care of patiens undergoing treatment with Lucilia sericata larvae. The third objektive has been to determine patients? needs when undergoing the treatment with Lucilia sericata larvae. The fourth objective has been to find out the awareness of nurses of the procedure of nursing care during the treatment with Lucilia sericata. The last, fifth, objektive has been to Compaq the surgical treatment and the alternative treatment from the perspective of patients. In order to find out the results, four patients and four nurses in the surgical ward at the hospital in Slaný were contacted. The research part includes four case reports and four transcribed interviews with the patients who undewent the treatment with Lucilia sericata larvae. The patients answered the prepared sets of questions in inteeviews. Afterwads, interview with four sisters who work in the surgical ward at the hospital in Slaný were conducted. All the patients included in our research group were satisfied with the alternative treatment with Lucilia sericata larvae, although the outcome of the treament of one of them was not satisfactory. Our research suggests that treament with Lucilia sericata larvae has a positive effect on patients and,in addition,according to the findings, the alternative treatment is cheaper and shorter than the traditional surgical procedure. In practice, the thesis could be used as an information and educational material for the method of treatment with Lucilia sericata larvae for patients as well medical staff