The unique multidisciplinarity of diabetes-related foot disease

Autores da FMUP

• Matilde Filipa Monteiro Soares

  Autor

Participantes de fora da FMUP

• van Netten, Jaap J.
• Apelqvist, Jan
• Bus, Sicco A.
• Fitridge, Robert
• Game, Fran
• Senneville, Eric
• Schaper, Nicolaas C.

Unidades de investigação

• Laboratório Associado RISE- Rede de Investigação em Saúde

  

  Investigador

  Fernando Carlos De Landér Schmitt

• Medicina da Comunidade, Informação e Decisão em Saúde

• RISE-Health

  

  Investigador

  Fernando Carlos De Landér Schmitt

Abstract

Few diseases globally require treatment from so many different disciplines as diabetes-related foot disease. At least 25 different professionals may be involved: casting technicians, dermatologists, diabetes (educator) nurses, diabetologists, dieticians, endocrinologists, general practitioners, human movement scientists, infectious diseases experts, microbiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, orthotists, pedorthists, physical therapists, plastic surgeons, podiatric surgeons, podiatrists, prosthetists, psychologists, radiologists, social workers, tissue viability physicians, vascular surgeons, and wound care nurses. A shared vocabulary and shared treatment goals and recommendations are then essential. The International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) has produced guidelines and supporting documents to stimulate and support shared and multidisciplinary evidence-based treatment in diabetes-related foot disease. In this special virtual issue of Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, all 21 documents of the 2023 update of the IWGDF Guidelines are bundled, added with a further 6 reviews from multidisciplinary experts to drive future research and clinical innovations, based on their contributions to the International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot. We hope the readers will enjoy this special virtual issue, and widely implement the knowledge shared here in their daily clinical practice and research endeavours with the goal to improve the care for people with diabetes-related foot disease.

Keywords

• Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetic Foot; Endocrinologists; Foot Diseases; Humans; Physicians; clinical practice; dermatologist; diabetes educator; diabetes mellitus; diabetic foot; diabetologist; dietitian; Editorial; endocrinologist; evidence based practice; general practitioner; human; microbiologist; nuclear medicine; nurse; orthopedic surgeon; orthotist; physician; physiotherapist; plastic surgeon; podiatrist; practice guideline; prosthetist; psychologist; radiologist; social worker; surgeon; symposium; tissue survival; vascular surgeon; vocabulary; wound care; diabetes mellitus; diabetic foot; foot disease; physician