Limb Salvage of the Diabetic Foot

An Interdisciplinary Approach
Herausgegeben:Edmonds, Michael E.; Sumpio, Bauer E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-17917-9
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9783319179179
• ISBN-10: 3319179179
• Artikelnr.: 42484738

Autorenporträt

Michael Edmonds Consultant Physician at King's College in London from 1981, founder and leader of Diabetic Foot Service and Clinic, including Emergency and Rapid Access Clinics at King's College Hospital. The Foot Service has achieved and maintained a 50% reduction in major amputations. This standard was adopted by the World Health Organisation and International Diabetes Federation in the St Vincent Declaration 1989 to Improve the Outlook of Diabetic Patients. The King's Diabetic Foot Clinic is widely accepted as an ideal model of care and has been duplicated in many Diabetic Clinics in UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. Bauer Sumpio MD, PhD, FACS Professor of Surgery (Vascular) and of Diagnostic Radiology; Chief, Vascular Surgery; Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program; Program Director, Vascular Surgery Residency Training Program; Associate Director, Graduate Medical Education Named among Best Doctors in America in 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Neuropathic foot.- Part 2. Charcot foot.- Part 3. Neuroischaemic foot with ulceration and infection.- Part 4. Critically ischaemic foot.- Part 5. Acutely ischaemic foot.- Part 6. Renal ischaemic foot.