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Interdisciplinary Collaboration In Emergency Care: Integrating Paramedics, Pharmacists, And Nurses For Optimal Patient Outcomes

VOLUME 22, 2025

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

VOLUME 6, 2023

Nawaf Muharib Almutairi, Hadi Ali Saleh Al Mansour, Hadi Habbash saleh Al Mansour, Mohammed Abdullah, Hussain Saleh Alyami, Saleh Mohammed Al Khruim, Waad Nasser Alkhatlan
Ali Aaly Almalki, Aref sulaiman alshammri, Abdullah Mohammed, Saad Mohammed Ghaieb Alotaiby, Atallah Thaar Mutlaq Alotaibi, Fawaz Dhaifallah Ali Alotaibi, Amal Abdullah alahmari

Abstract

By pulling resources together from operations that used to function individually, Emergency Medical Services has been able to deploy a more sophisticated and integrated approach to emergency health to enable the rapid and effective treatment of emergency medical conditions. This modern approach has been integrated from various professions comprising emergency medicine, pharmacy, nursing and laboratory technology. This development has historically co-occurred with rising pressures on emergency departments (EDs) around the globe.

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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