The Diabetic Foot

Diabetic foot infections are a frequent clinical problem. About 50% of diabetic foot infections who have foot amputations die within five years. Properly managed most can be cured, but many patients needlessly undergo amputations because of improper diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. This approach along with vascular assessment help clinical decisions about which patients to hospitalize, which to send for imaging procedures or for whom to recommend surgical interventions. This paper reviewed the natural history of the diabetic foot and assessed the surgical impact of the Infectious Diseases Society of America clinical practice guideline- based care of diabetic foot infections.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  The journal of nursing care

• Publication date

  2015-03-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.4172/2167-1168.1000234
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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