Post the Pandemic: How will COVID-19 Transform Diabetic Foot Disease Management?

摘要

I have learned that traditional healthcare delivery models for managing chronic illness like diabetes are not at scale to handle situations like the global COVID-19 crisis. For instance, because of the drastic containment and mitigation measures, other parts of the healthcare system are leaving fragile patients including individuals with diabetes without necessary services. This is disrupting the best practices for preventing diabetes-related complications including diabetic foot syndrome (DFS), such as diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), infection, and gangrene.1