The Diabetic Foot
Wound care specialists are in a key position to innovate and lead new treatments for diabetic foot disorders.
Foot care amongst diabetics is incredibly important. Even small ulcers on the foot can represent a serious risk: they may heal extremely slowly and need rigorous treatment to cure. Foot ulcers affect as many as 1 out of every 10 diabetes sufferers, during the entirety of their condition. Ulcers can develop into serious lower body infections, with the possibility of amputation at an advanced stage. In order to improve patients’ outcomes and to limit the risk of lower extremity amputation, it is therefore vital that practitioners recognise the risk factors associated with diabetic foot disorders and are aware of new innovations in treatment and management.
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In this diabetic foot supplement, JWC looks at key areas of this topic. These are just a few of the issues addressed in this supplement published by JWC:
- How effective is maggot debridement therapy (MDT) in the management of diabetic foot ulcers which are unresponsive to conventional treatment and surgical intervention?
- What role does diabetic microvascular disease play in the development of foot wounds?
- What are the problems of treating diabetic foot ulcers in developing countries?
- Can the prevalence of microflora in developing countries create difficulties in antibiotic treatment?
- How should bone and soft-tissue defects in unstable acute and chronic Charcot's Neuroarthropathy be treated?
