Edmonds Michael E. - Managing the Diabetic Foot

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all health-care professionals that faithfully and valiantly look after diabetic patients with foot problems throughout the world.

The authors royalties from this book will be devoted to the Ali Foster Travel Fund, which will support young practitioners to visit centres of excellence to enrich their experience and expertise.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Edmonds, M. E., author.

Managing the diabetic foot / Michael E Edmonds, Alethea VM Foster. Third edition.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-65505-4 (pbk.)

I. Foster, Alethea VM, author. II. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Diabetic Foottherapy. WK 835]

RC918.D53

616.4'62dc23

2013034288

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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude for the excellent assistance of Rachael Winter in the production of this third edition.

We are grateful to Mr Hisham Rashid, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, and Mr Venu Kavarthapu, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, for their excellent surgical leadership in the Diabetic Foot Service.

We are grateful to colleagues past and present, who include: Simon Fraser, Huw Walters, Mary Blundell, Cathy Eaton, Mark Greenhill, Susie Spencer, Maureen McColgan-Bates, Mel Doxford, Sally Wilson, Adora Hatrapal, E Maelor Thomas, Mick Morris, John Philpott-Howard, Jim Wade, Andrew Hay, Robert Lewis, Anne-Marie Ryan, Irina Mantey, Robert Hills, Rachel Ben-Salem, Muriel Buxton-Thomas, Mazin Al-Janabi, Dawn Hurley, Stephanie Amiel, Stephen Thomas, Daniela Pitei, Paul Baskerville, Anthony Giddings, Irving Benjamin, Mark Myerson, Paul Sidhu, Joydeep Sinha, Patricia Wallace, Gillian Cavell, Lesley Boys, Magdi Hanna, Sue Peat, Colin Roberts, David Goss, Colin Deane, Sue Snowdon, Ana Grenfell, Tim Cundy, Pat Ascott, Lindis Richards, Kate Spicer, Debbie Broome, Liz Hampton, Timothy Jemmott, Michelle Buckley, Rosalind Phelan, Maggie Boase, Maria Back, Julie Lambert, Avril Witherington, Daniel Rajan, Ghulam Mufti, Karen Fairbairn, Ian Eltringham, Nina Petrova, Lindy Begg, Barbara Wall, Mark O'Brien, Sacha Andrews, Barry Pike, Jane Preece, Briony Sloper, Christian Pankhurst, Jim Beaumont, Matthew McShane, Tim Cooney, Lin Pan, Cheryl Clark, Marcello Perez, Nicholas Cooley, Paul Bains, Patricia Yerbury, Charlotte Biggs, Anna Korzon Burakowska, David Ross, Jason Wilkins, David Evans, Dean Huang, Carol Gayle, David Hopkins, Rifat Malik, Pratik Choudhary, Keith Jones, Bob Edmondson, Enid Joseph, Karen Reid, David Williams, Doris Agyemang-Duah, Jennifer Tremlett, Om Lahoti, Mark Phillips, Sarah Phillips, Dom Valenti, Hani Slim, Indira Maharaj, Surabhi Taori, Paula Gardiner, Ian Alejandro, Barbara Chirara, Victoria Morris, Hany Zayed, Igor Kubelka, Daksheka Jayaratnam, Thoraya Ammar, Nicola Mulholland, Gill Vivian, Riddhika Chakravartty, Naveen Cavale, Wegin Tang, Natalya Hedger, Sophie Whitelaw, Joanne Casey, Leye Stephen, Jody Lucas, Vesna Vincent, Olla Shitta-Bey, Leila Howe, Marcus Simmgen, Rajan Patel, Chris Manu, Paul Donohoe, Sui Phin Kon, David Elias, Lisa Meakin, Ben Whitelaw, James Dent, Ben Freedman, Victoria Rose, Esther Dontoh and two great stalwarts of the Foot Clinic, Peter Watkins and the late David Pyke.

The Podiatry Managers and Community Podiatrists from Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham have also contributed greatly to the work of the Foot Clinic at King's over many years. We are also grateful to Lee Sanders, who was our co-author in writing A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care.

We are particularly grateful for the advice of the members of the Dermatology Department, Anthony du Vivier, Daniel Creamer, Claire Fuller, Elisabeth Higgins, Sarah MacFarlane, Rachel Morris-Jones, Sarah Walsh and Saqib Bashir. We give special thanks to Yvonne Bartlett, Alex Dionysiou, David Langdon, Lucy Wallace, Margaret Delaney and Moira Lovell from the Department of Medical Photography.