REVIEW  BELOW THE KNEE INTERVENTIONS FOR CLTI Free access

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2021 April;62(2):124-9

DOI: 10.23736/S0021-9509.21.11725-2

Copyright © 2021 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Modern multidisciplinary team approach is crucial in treatment for critical limb threatening ischemia

Jos C. VAN DEN BERG ^{1, 2} ✉, Vickie R. DRIVER ³, Andrew HOLDEN ⁴, Michael R. JAFF ⁵, Robert A. LOOKSTEIN ⁶, Jihad A. MUSTAPHA ⁷, Richard F. NEVILLE ⁸, Thomas ZELLER ⁹, Barry T. KATZEN ¹⁰ on behalf of the CLI Global Society

¹ Centro Vascolare Ticino, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland; ² Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ³ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; ⁴ Northern Region Interventional Radiology Service, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand; ⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; ⁶ Department of Radiology, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; ⁷ Advanced Cardiac & Vascular Centers for Amputation Prevention, Grand Rapids, MI, USA; ⁸ Department of Surgery, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA; ⁹ Department of Angiology, Universitäts-Herzzentrum, Bad Krozingen, Germany; ¹⁰ Division of Interventional Radiology, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

The aim of this study was to provide a brief overview of the history the multidisciplinary team approach, highlighting the benefit to the patient with critical limb threatening ischemia in relation to health care economics. Furthermore, we provided a description of the requisites and key components, showing how to build a multidisciplinary team.

KEY WORDS: Wounds and injuries; Amputation; Interdisciplinary research