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AB - Keywords: Limb amputation is a consequence, and the leading complication, of diabetic foot ulcers. Diabetic foot Prevention depends on prompt diagnosis and management. Patients should be managed by Diabetic foot ulcer multidisciplinary teams and efforts should be focused on limb salvage (“time is tissue”). The Multidisciplinary team diabetic foot service should be organized in a way to meet the patient’s clinical needs, with the diabetic foot centers at the highest level of this structure. Surgical management should be multimodal and include not only revascularization, but also surgical and biological de- bridement, minor amputations, and advanced wound therapy. Medical treatment, including an adequate antimicrobial therapy, has a key role in the eradication of infection and should be guided by microbiologists and infection disease physicians with special interest in bone infection. Input from diabetologists, radiologists, orthopedic teams (foot and ankle), ortho- tists, podiatrists, physiotherapists, and prosthetics, as well as psychological counseling, is required to make the service comprehensive. After the acute phase, a well-structured, prag- matic follow-up program is necessary to adequately manage the patients with the aim to detect earlier potential failures of the revascularization or antimicrobial therapy. Consid- ering the cost and societal impact of diabetic foot problems, health 
TI - Emergent management of diabetic foot problems in the modern era: Improving outcomes
JF - Seminars in Vascular Surgery
DO - 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2023.04.012
DA - 2023-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/emergent-management-of-diabetic-foot-problems-in-the-modern-era-lsIRn5ynGu
DP - DeepDyve
ER -