Pocket Guideline of Diabetic Foot: For Professionals, 2nd Edition (Original PDF from Publisher)

This book describes the pocket guideline of diabetic foot. Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions across the globe. It is one of the few diseases that affect multiple organ systems. This edition of Pocket Guideline of Diabetic Foot care provides a broad sweep of current knowledge in the field of medical and surgical aspects of the diabetic foot complications. Some of the most feared complications of diabetes for those people who have the misfortune to develop it are lower limb disease, foot ulceration, infection, amputation, and ultimately death. Until recently, diabetic foot disease has been a relatively neglected complication of diabetes, but slowly things are changing. Education remains the basic tenet for the prevention of complications among persons with diabetes. This book consists of two sections that include medical aspect of diabetic foot and surgical aspect of diabetic foot. This edition of the pocket guideline is a useful tool for clinical practice aimed at managing the diabetic foot; it focuses on the key aspects of prevention and education through initiatives based on sharing knowledge.