The Diabetic Foot and Peripheral Vascular Disease Study Group, Chinese Diabetes Society, released an expert advice Recommendations of Chinese Experts on the Standardized Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Foot During Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, and the International Diabetic Foot Care Group and D-Foot International released a document Fast-track Pathway for Diabetic Foot Ulceration During COVID-19 Crisis: A Document from International Diabetic Foot Care Group and D-Foot International during the 2020 outbreak, respectively. Both have the same goals, but the implementation focuses are different. The aim of this article is to give an interpretation of both expert advices in terms of the general principles, the epidemic prevention and control, the family, community and hospitalization management model of diabetic foot, the holistic principle of diabetic foot standardized management, and the telemedicine application in the late epidemic period.
Citation: CHEN Dawei, RAN Xingwu. Interpretation of the 2020 Recommendations of Chinese Experts on the Standardized Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Foot During Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic and Fast-track Pathway for Diabetic Foot Ulceration During COVID-19 Crisis: A Document from International Diabetic Foot Care Group and D-Foot International. West China Medical Journal, 2021, 36(4): 440-444. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202103094 Copy