Limb Salvage of the Diabetic Foot
An Interdisciplinary Approach
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Beschreibung
This book provides a practical guide to the treatment of patients as risk from limb amputation. The most common presentations of the diabetic foot are presented in concise and evidence-based chapters covering the neuropathic foot, the Charcot foot, the ischemic foot, and the infected foot. Each section includes an introduction to the clinical approach as well as an algorithm illustrating the limb salvage pathway and intervention steps.
Limb Salvage of the Diabetic Foot: An Interdisciplinary Approach aims to help the reader build an interdisciplinary understanding of the diabetic foot and its treatment and is of interest to all members of the interdisciplinary diabetic foot team including surgeons, podiatrists, radiologists, nurses, orthotists, infectious disease physicians, and endocrinologists.
This book provides a practical guide to the treatment of patients as risk from limb amputation. The most common presentations of the diabetic foot are presented in concise and evidence-based chapters covering the neuropathic foot, the Charcot foot, the ischemic foot, and the infected foot. Each section includes an introduction to the clinical approach as well as an algorithm illustrating the limb salvage pathway and intervention steps.
Limb Salvage of the Diabetic Foot: An Interdisciplinary Approach aims to help the reader build an interdisciplinary understanding of the diabetic foot and its treatment and is of interest to all members of the interdisciplinary diabetic foot team including surgeons, podiatrists, radiologists, nurses, orthotists, infectious disease physicians, and endocrinologists.
Chapters reflect the six main presentations of the diabetic foot at risk of amputation and present a clear interdisciplinary Diagrams of limb salvage pathways provide a clear summary of patient management Clinical photographs assist the reader in quickly and easily recognizing the various presentations of the threatened limb Offers practical, instructive information for clinicians on what to do in common limb salvage situations
Autor*in
Michael E. Edmonds
Themen in »Limb Salvage of the Diabetic Foot«
Surgical management of the infected diabetic foot Neuropathic foot Limb salvage pathway and algorithm Diabetic neuropathy Neuropathic diabetic foot ulceration Infected diabetic foot including osteomyelitis Ischemic foot The angiosome concept