ALGORITHMS

“The DFA (diabetic foot offloading algorithm) is an understandable language that can work from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi, all the way to Los Angeles, Houston, or Rome.”

It is based on the fundamental principles and scientific elements of international guidelines. The flexibility of this algorithm is that it can mix and combine technologies and be easily understood by everyone, providing appropriate therapeutic guidance to the physician, podiatrist, or healthcare professional who cares for the patient with a “risk, high-risk, or very high-risk foot.”

Prof. David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California