The Foot in Diabetes reviews important developments in the field of diabetic foot care and its scientific basis.

Features:

• Focuses on practical applications and management
• Examines new technologies such as vacuum therapy, new casting techniques, the use stems cells and gene therapy in wound healing
• Reviews new international guidelines introduced for the management of infectious disease

Contents

1. Epidemiology and Economic Impact of Foot Ulcers
2. The Epidemiology of Amputations and the Influence of Ethnicity
3. Diabetic Neuropathy
4. Microcirculation and Diabetic Foot
5. The Pathway to Ulceration: Aetiopathogenesis
6. What the Practising Clinician Should Know About Foot Biomechanics
7. The Description and Classification of Diabetic Foot Lesions: Systems for Clinical Care, for Research and for Audit
8. Providing a Diabetes Foot Care Service: Lessons from the Veterans Health Affairs in the United States
9. Providing a Diabetic Foot Care Service: The Exeter Integrated Diabetic Foot Project
10. The Diabetic Foot in Primary Care: A UK Perspective
11. Psychological and Behavioural Issues in Diabetic Foot Ulceration
12. Education in the Management of the Foot in Diabetes
13. Infection of the Foot in Persons with Diabetes: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Microbiology, Clinical Presentation and Approach to Therapy
14. Challenges in the Infected Diabetic Foot: Osteomyelitis and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
15. Dressings: Is There an Evidence Base
16. New and Alternative Treatments for the Diabetic Foot: Stem Cells and Gene Transfer
17. An Introduction to Larval Therapy
18. New and Alternative Treatments for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Hormones and Growth Factors
19. Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Diabetic Foot
20. Interventional Radiology in the Diabetic Foot
21. Peripheral Vascular Disease and Reconstruction
22. Charcot Foot: What’s New in Pathogenesis and Medical Management
23. The Operative Treatment of Charcot Neuroarthropathy of the Foot and Ankle
24. Surgery for Ulceration and Infection in the Diabetic Foot
25. Conventional Offloading and Activity Monitoring
26. Amputations in the Diabetic Foot
27. Rehabilitation of the Amputee with Diabetes
28. Footwear for People with Diabetes
29. New Casting Techniques: Introduction to the ‘Instant Total Contact Cast’
30. New Technologies in Wound Healing: Pressure-Relieving Dressings
31. Negative Pressure Wound (VAC) Therapy
32. The Diabetic Foot in Brazil
33. Recent International Developments: India
34. Recent International Developments: Africa
35. The International Consensus on the Diabetic Foot
36. ‘The Organisation of Diabetic Foot Care’: Evidence-Based Recommendations
37. Primary Care: Delivery/Translation of Guidelines into Practice
38. Practical Aspects of Establishing a Multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Clinic
39. Practical Issues in Diabetes Foot Care: Podiatry – Linking Primary and Secondary Care
40. Algorithms for Assessing Risks for Ulcerations and Amputations

Index

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