Contemporary Management of the Diabetic Foot

Diabetes can limit blood supply to the feet resulting in loss of feeling, which means foot injuries do not heal well and may go unnoticed. People with diabetes are 15 times more likely to have a limb amputated due to gangrene (NHS Choices).

This book is a complete guide to the care of diabetic foot. Beginning with the basics of the condition, clinical examination and assessment, the following chapters describe management strategies for diabetic foot resulting from different disorders.

This comprehensive manual includes more than 300 images, illustrations and tables, and each chapter offers suggestions for further reading.

Key points

• Complete guide to care of the diabetic foot
• Covers diagnosis and management strategies for the condition resulting from different disorders
• Includes more than 300 images, illustrations and tables
• Extensive further reading suggestions

1. Introduction
2. Historical Notes on a Modern Disease: The Diabetic Foot
3. Surgical Anatomy of the Lower limb and Foot
4. The Global Burden of Diabetic Foot
5. Diabetic Neuropathy
6. The Biomechanics of the Diabetic Foot
7. Examination of Feet in Diabetes
8. Classification and Staging of Diabetic Foot
9. The Assessment and Management of Plantar Ulcers and Off-loading the Diabetic Foot
10. The Diabetic Charcot Foot: Diagnosis and Management
11. Diabetic Foot Infections
12. Principles of Debridement in Infected Foot
13. Evaluation of Neuroischemic Foot
14. Approach to Dysvascular Diabetic Foot
15. Diabetic Foot Ulcers – Short and Long Term Outcomes
16. Amputations
17. Newer Therapies-Advanced wound healing products and techniques
18. Atypical features of Diabetic foot in Indians
19. Screening and Prevention of the Diabetic Foot
20. Prescribing Footwear
21. Patient education and empowerment in the prevention and Management of diabetic foot disease
22. Establishing a Multidisciplinary/ Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Clinic

Sharad Pendsey MD
Consultant in Diabetology, Director, Diabetes Clinic and Research Centre, Dhantoli, Nagpur, Maharastra, India