Overview
- Discusses all aspects of functional limb salvage, utilizing a multidisciplinary team approach
- Covers diagnosis and assessment, conservative and surgical management options, and prevention of complications
- A ready reference for plastic, orthopedic, podiatric, and vascular surgeons and their support staff
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Taking a truly interdisciplinary approach to the topic, Functional Limb Salvage is a ready reference for all clinicians and surgeons treating this patient population, including plastic, vascular, orthopedic and podiatric surgeons and their support staff.
The content of this text is focused on defining and expanding upon the importance and, more specifically, the intricacies of the multidisciplinary team approach. Although this is often touched upon or cited as an integral aspect of care, there are only sparse descriptions of the interplay of multiple team members in concert with the care of this challenging patient population.
This comprehensive text opens with definitions, demographics, epidemiology, pathophysiology and etiology of the limb salvage patient population, whether due to infection, ischemia or deformity. The multidisciplinary team itself is then outlined, from the who, when and where of the intervention to the role of the individual clinicians themselves; from vascular and plastic surgeons to podiatric and orthopedic surgeons, multiple medical specialties, and with thorough attention to the integral support staff of NPs, PAs and many others. History and assessment are then discussed as a prelude to both conservative and surgical treatments, including wound healing optimization, orthotics and prosthetics, skin grafting, amputation, bioengineered tissue and more. A final chapter on innovation and landmark publications rounds out the presentation.
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John S. Steinberg, DPM, FACFAS, Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Division of Wound Healing, Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
Christopher E. Attinger, MD, FACS, Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Division of Wound Healing, Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Limb Salvage
Book Subtitle: The Multidisciplinary Team Approach
Editors: Christopher E. Attinger, John S. Steinberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27725-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27724-5Published: 29 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27727-6Due: 30 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27725-2Published: 28 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 628
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 262 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery, Orthopedics