1. Masters of Clinical Science Candidate, The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Contact: [email protected] 2. Masters of Clinical Science Candidate, The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Contact: [email protected] 3. Research Fellow, The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, rebecca.cookjohnson@adelaid...

Foot complications are among the most serious and costly complications of diabetes mellitus. Amputation of the lower extremity or part of it is usually preceded by a foot ulcer. A strategy that includes prevention, patient and staff education, multidisciplinary treatment of foot ulcers, and close monitoring can reduce amputation rates by 49–85%. Therefore, several countries and organizations, s...

PURPOSE To provide the specialist in skin and wound care with evidence-based guidelines for care of the person with a diabetic foot ulcer. TARGET AUDIENCE This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in wound care and related disorders. OBJECTIVES After reading this article and taking this test, the reader should be able to: 1. Describe the patho...

promising Antibiotic compounds The development of novel methods to overcome the inevitable resistance that develops with common antibiotics is an important area of current research. Recent studies have shown that antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have the potential to become excellent antibiotic compounds toward a broad-spectrum of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria with less potential for ba...

Accurate classification of diabetic foot ulcers is essential for inter-clinician communication, assessment of healing tendency and determination of treatment options. The aim of this study was to assess the inter-observer agreement (IOA) of the most commonly used classification systems for diabetic foot ulcers; the Meggitt-Wagner (MW) and the University of Texas (UT) systems. In this study, 95 ...

Diabetic foot is a serious complication of diabetes which aggravates the patient's condition whilst also having significant socioeconomic impact. The aim of the present review is to summarize the causes and pathogenetic mechanisms leading to diabetic foot, and to focus on the management of this important health issue. Increasing physicians' awareness and hence their ability to identify the "foo...

Diabetes as one of Non-communicable diseases has allocated a large proportion of cost, time and human resources of health systems. Now, due to changes in lifestyle and industrial process, incidence of diabetes and its complications have been increased. Accordingly diabetic foot considered as a common complication of diabetes.Nurses are health care providers who actively involved in prevention a...