Using Susol in the domiciliary environment

No heavy lifting

At some point in their career, most podiatrists and Foot Health Practitioners will carry out footcare treatments in the patients own home. For the newly qualified it is almost a rite of passage.

When visiting a patient’s home there is always the conundrum of what equipment should be taken along. Do you take a drill, a leg support, a light?

Other decisions are easier to make. You know you will need instruments. Which is better to use, single use or reusable?

In this blog, we outline the benefits of using Susol in the domiciliary environment. Such benefits are relevant to those practitioners in a nursing or residential home as well.

Using Susol means a lighter load. Whether you use the Podiatry Set, the Nail Care Set or the Basic Care Set, these all come in packs of 10. The packs are lightweight and easily transportable. If you have a busy day planned in a nursing or residential setting, it is easy to carry enough instruments to cope with the heaviest of workloads.

Taking the larger Podiatry Set as an example, each set contains 1 x Susol Nail nipper, 1 x Susol Blacks File, 1 x Susol double sided emery board, 1 x Scalpel Handle no3 and a pair of dressing scissors. This set weighs in at 146 grams. In comparison, a single peach weighs in at around 150 grams !

Thanks to its economical packaging, a Podiatry set will easily slot into your visiting case, or even into a coat pocket.

By using Susol, a practitioner can take a sterile, ready-to-use pack into each patients’ home. Once the day is completed, the Susol user has no cleaning, decontamination or sterilisation processes to look forward to. The instruments are disposed of in a Sharps Box. Waste disposal companies collect the Boxes and are able to pass them on to specialist recycling companies. These will be discussed in later blogs.