A Review of WIfI Clinical Staging to Predict Outcomes in Patients with Threatened Limbs

The Society for Vascular Surgery Wound, Ischemia, and foot Infection (WIfI) threatened limb classification system serves to comprehensively assess the severity of disease in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia by identifying and grading the main factors that place the threatened limb at greatest risk: wound severity, ischemic burden, and presence of infection. Each of these three factors is graded and the limb placed into a clinical stage, with increasing stage associated with severity of limb-threat and predicted risk of major limb amputation at one-year.
Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research
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