Abstract

DIABETIC FOOT INFECTION & ITS MANAGEMENT: AN UPDATE ON PROGNOSIS

Soumik Bhattacharjee*, Arko Choudhury, Trinath Ghosh, Arindam Chatterjee, Sumit Nandi, Rana Datta and Amites Gangopadhyay

ABSTRACT

Throughout the previous 40 years, the number of patients with diabetes had doubled. According to recent research, foot ulcer will develop in about 25% of diabetic patients over their lifespan, and treating a diabetic foot ulcer is more expensive than treating any other type of chronic ulcer. Both persistent wounds and infection have been associated to microbial biofilm. It is anticipated that almost one in two diabetics who have a foot ulcer will acquire a diabetic foot infection. Less than half of the diabetic foot ulcers have been demonstrated to recover within the next one year; most of these patients will need expensive hospitalization, and the most recent statistics indicate that a disproportionate number of diabetic foot infections will have a need of extremities amputation to gain infection solution. Because prototype for prevention of infection and management are changing, the emergence of an infection in foot ulcer is crucial. This article will examine the scope of the current problems with diabetic foot infectionmanagement and prevention, as well as what is now thought to be standard of care. In many cases, worsening of the problem and the amputation possibility can be avoided by timely and aggressive mitigation of diabetic foot scraps using integrative supervision proceeds concentrating on mitigation, education, routine foot evaluation, hostile arbitration, and ideal use of medicated footwear. With an accenuation on aetiology, unique stake factors, evaluation that includes physical examination, wet lab examinations, pertinent treatment methods, and evaluation of infection graveness, this review of recent publications on diabetic foot infections focuses on these topics.

Keywords: Diabetic foot infection, Treatments, New insight.