Articles: local-complications.
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Appropriate insulin injection technique can help to enhance positive clinical outcomes in insulin-treated patients. This cross-sectional survey was undertaken to assess the present state of injection technique practices of patients administering insulin and the incidence of local complications associated with insulin injection. ⋯ Despite some improvements detected in some aspects of patients' insulin injection practice in recent years, a large gap still exists between insulin injection guidelines and patients' actual injection behaviour. Injection-related complications at injection sites are still considerably common among our study population. Patients' education regarding insulin injection technique should be conducted repeatedly and regularly to make sure patients' compliance to injection guidelines.
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Multicenter Study
Safety of the modified posteromedial approach in complex ankle fractures: Comparative analysis versus posterolateral access.
The aim of the study was to evaluate the safety of the modified posteromedial approach (MfPM) in the surgical management of complex ankle fractures in terms of local complications. ⋯ The MfPM approach is safe and may become as readily used as the PL due to the low incidence of postoperative local complications, especially in fractures with a large fragment and posteromedial extension in which greater access to the posterior pilon can facilitate instrumentation for anatomic reduction and fixation.