Robert Fitridge

Diabetes‐related foot disease is a serious and common complication for people with diabetes mellitus. The gold standard care for a person with diabetes‐related foot disease is the involvement of a multidisciplinary foot team engaged in evidence‐based care. To date, there are seven International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) guidelines published to assist healthcare providers in managing diabetes‐related foot disease around the world. This review discusses the acute management of diabetes‐related foot infection with insights from experts of various specialities (internal medicine, infectious disease, vascular surgery, radiology) with a discussion on the implementation of IWGDF guidelines in real life practice and the challenges that healthcare providers may face.