Introduction
In the ongoing quest to provide a more standardized, evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with diabetes who are at high risk for amputation, we have organized the most recently published guidelines and other key publications below as a convenient set of resources in one place. It is our hope that this convenient compendium, including resources on the diabetic foot, critical limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) and the building of interdisciplinary limb salvage teams, will prove to be beneficial in your efforts to improve limb salvage outcomes for your patients.
Diabetic Foot
Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Their Recurrence.
N Engl J Med. 2017;376(24):2367-2375.
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Practical Guidelines on the Prevention and Management of Diabetic Foot Disease (IWGDF 2023 Update).
Guidelines on the Prevention of Foot Ulcers in Persons with Diabetes (IWGDF 2023 Update).
Guidelines on Offloading Foot Ulcers in Persons with Diabetes (IWGDF 2023 Update).
IWGDF/IDSA guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes-related foot infections (IWGDF/IDSA 2023).
Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2023; e3687.
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The intersocietal IWGDF, ESVS, SVS guidelines on peripheral artery disease in patients with diabetes mellitus and a foot ulcer.
2012 Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Foot Infections.
CLTI
Society for Vascular Surgery Lower Extremity Threatened Limb Classification System:
Risk stratification based on wound, ischemia, and foot infection (WIfI).