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Validated 60-Second General Foot Screen: A Pilot Trial and Guide to Diagnoses and Treatment
R Gary Sibbald1, Khalad Maliyar, Reneeka Persaud-Jaimangal
1R. Gary Sibbald, MD, DSc (Hons), MEd, FRCPC (Med Derm), ABIM, FAAD, MAPWCA • Professor • Medicine and Public Health • Director • International Interprofessional Wound Care Course and Masters of Science in Community Health (Prevention and Wound Care) • Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health • University of Toronto • Lead Project ECHO Ontario Wound & Skin Care • Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Investigator, Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners • co-Editor-in-Chief • Advances in Skin and Wound Care • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Khalad Maliyar, BA • Medical Student • Faculty of Medicine • University of Toronto • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Reneeka Persaud-Jaimangal, MD, MScCH • Clinical Coordinator • Project ECHO Skin and Wound • Research Coordinator and Special Projects • Toronto Regional Wound Healing Clinic • Adjunct Faculty • International Interprofessional Wound Care Course • Toronto, Ontario, Canada James A. Elliott, MSc • Faculty • International Interprofessional Wound Care Course • Member • Wounds Canada Research Committee • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Alisa Brandon, BSc • Medical Student • Faculty of Medicine • University of Toronto • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bharat Kotru, PhD, MSc, BSc, PT Podiatry • Clinical Integrity & Wound Management • Faculty Member of the International Interprofessional Wound Care Course (IIWCC) • Max Super Speciality Hospital • Punjab, India David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD • Director • Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance • Professor of Surgery • Keck School of Medicine • University of Southern California • Los Angeles, California.
General Purpose:
To provide information on a 60-second General Foot Screen to assist in the prevention and/or identification and management of common foot problems.
Target Audience:
This continuing education activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses with an interest in skin and wound care.
Learning Objectives/Outcomes:
After participating in this educational activity, the participant should be better able to:1. Use the 60-second General Foot Screen to assist healthcare professionals in the recognition of common foot problems.2. Identify risk factors, causes, and treatment of selected foot problems.
Abstract:
Foot health is important to overall patient health. Early diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, neuropathy, fungal foot infections, foot deformity, and vascular disease/lower leg edema can improve patient quality of life. One way to achieve this is effective screening. To this end, researchers piloted a validated 10-item screening tool to assess foot health on 120 patients; 74.17% had at least one positive abnormality, demonstrating the critical importance of these early findings. Only 25.83% of individuals had completely low-risk feet. This easy-to-use tool can assist healthcare professionals in the recognition and treatment of common foot problems. The article also outlines the early signs of disease by screening item and provides a guide to treatment to enable effective prevention and quality care.
