Reijen and coworkers from Geneva with an important report on the state of WIFI and limb-threat. Objectives: The Society for Vascular Surgery has proposed the Wound, Ischaemia, and foot Infection (WIfI) classifi cation system as a prognostic tool for the one year amputation risk and the added value ofnrevascularisation in patients with chronic limb threatening […]

Creating a free online space where people with diabetes can safely increase their activity? With gamification features? Yep. See here for the latest from our colleagues Ferreira and colleagues.

“It’s not necessarily, ‘Is robot better?’ ” says Dr. Kenneth Kim, director of the robotic training program at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. “Robot is just another tool that they need to master just like any other surgical tool.” From NPR

In a glittering event at Pasadena’s Langham Hotel, Keck School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, Vascular Surgery Division held its commencement ceremonies including both vascular and podiatric surgical graduates. For the first time, this included graduates of the Department’s limb preservation fellowship. Perhaps even more notable was that this is the first such “named” fellowship […]

David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance published his 500th peer reviewed manuscript in 2019, at age 50. He becomes the first podiatric surgeon in the history of the specialty to reach this landmark. He and his colleagues have become the first podiatric surgeons to publish in […]

Here are the IWGDF guidelines. Here are the nine separate guidelines divided into chapters for the profoundly interdisciplinary work. The full guidelines can be downloaded in one fell swoop here.

Important work from our friends and colleagues from Turkey and Washington (Prof. Ben Lipsky). Background The optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for treating orthopaedic implant infections after surgical drainage and complete implant removal is unknown.Methods This was a single-centre, unblinded, prospective trial randomizing (1:1) eligible patients to either 4 or 6 weeks of systemic, pathogen-targeted antibiotic […]

In the world of step goals and activity trackers, the number 10,000 can sound like a magic one. Many wearable devices that track the number of steps a person takes each day come pre-programmed with a daily goal of 10,000 steps. But while a large body of evidence shows that physical activity is good for […]

Important work from our Scottish colleagues Graham Leese and coworkers (with a little help from Nottingham). Some key take home messages: AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Our aim was to investigate amputation-free survival in people at high risk for foot ulceration in diabetes (‘high-risk foot’), and to compare different subcategories of high-risk foot. METHODS: Overall, 17,353 people with diabetes […]