Cultura

The Media Logic of Community Building in the Post-epidemic Era: Dewey's Communication Thought and Its Contemporary Value

VOLUME 21, 2024

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Xiaoyan Li
School of Communication, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an, Jiangsu 223001, China
Wei Cao
School of Art, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211189, China. School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Benxiong Hu
School of Art, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211189, China
Likun Zhang
School of Fine Arts, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an, Jiangsu 223001, China

Abstract

In the era of globalization, any public security and emergencies may spread to the world and have a serious impact on social development. Only by concentrating their efforts and building an interrelated community with a shared future can all countries improve their capabilities of responding to public crisis. Dewey believed that the key to community building lies in how to choose media to improve the level of human communication and enable them to reach consensus. News media cannot enable human beings to reach a deeper essential level and cultivate their ability to think and judge in response to public affairs; art media provides opportunities for people to improve their participation level, break through the shackles of superficial social interactions, and lead to deeper spiritual exchanges. Dewey and Marx had the same pursuit of spiritual communication and human liberation for all mankind. Dewey hoped that human society could develop into a "great community" with free communication and mutual understanding. Dewey's theoretical logic of using media research to promote community building provides valuable inspiration for the development of human society.

Keywords : Dewey; community; communication; art; media; globalization.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty