English Education and Digital Media: New Ways to Enhance Cultural Sensitivity and Global Perspective
VOLUME 21, 2024
The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review
VOLUME 6, 2023
Hao Cao
School of Foreign Languages, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221000, China
School of Foreign Languages, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221000, China
Abstract
Cultural diversity is a crucial element of human life as it determines cross-cultural relationships, constraining the socio-cultural and economic activities of culturally diverse persons. More recently, digital media has been used as a platform for expanding knowledge on cultural sensitivity in the vast population of digital media users in the Hu Xiang region. Strategic approaches that English educators have used include tweaking curricula to match the needs of digital media users, banking on encouragement, increasing digital media literature and highlighting challenges facing digital media education and English learning. These strategies have been diploid contextually through videos, social media communities, podcasts, and posts to capture users’ attention. However, the deployment of these tactics encounters the challenge of socio-economic differences where marginalized individuals hardly access these materials on social media due to low internet penetration and unaffordable electronic gadgets like laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Keywords :
English Education; Digital Media; Cultural Sensitivity; Global Perspective; Cross-Cultural Relationships.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Abstract
Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords :
Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty