Minor amputation and palliative wound care as a strategy to avoid major amputation in patients with foot infections and severe peripheral arterial disease

International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 211-219

  Barshes, Neal R ^a   Gold, Benjamin ^a   Garcia, Aimee ^a   Bechara, Carlos F ^a   Pisimisis, George ^a   Kougias, Panos ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

diabetic foot infection; palliative care

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ABSCESS; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT INFECTION; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INFECTION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIMB SALVAGE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TISSUE NECROSIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; AMPUTATION; COMPLICATION; DIABETIC FOOT; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84907218013     PISSN: 15347346     EISSN: 15526941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534734614543663     Document Type: Article

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