Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of foot pathology resulting from combined exposure to hot weather and humid environmental conditions (literature review)

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Background. Global climate warming leads to the emergence of long periods of hot weather in summer in the Russian Federation. It causes the emergence of pathologies that were previously found only in tropical countries. One of them is foot pathology resulting from the combined effects of hot weather and humid environmental conditions. It can occur in people of various specialities working in humid environmental conditions. Analysing literature sources, we found that there is a lack of information on this problem in domestic literature sources.

Purpose. To increase the effectiveness of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of foot pathology arising in patients as a result of the combined effects of hot weather and humid environmental conditions, by informing medical professionals about this problem and ways of solving it.

Materials and methods. We searched for publications in RSCI, PubMed, Cochrane and Scopus databases by the key word term «tropical foot». A total of 29 publications were identified, of which 24 were selected.

Results. The information has been analysed and a modern view on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of «warm water immersion foot» (WWIF) and «tropical immersion foot» (TIF) has been formulated. It is revealed that the pathophysiology of these diseases is not sufficiently studied. It is noted that existing prevention and treatment measures are based on clinical experience rather than on the principles of evidence-based medicine.

Conclusion. In connection with global climate warming, the need for further scientific research aimed at a comprehensive integrated study of this pathology and the development on their basis of its effective prevention and treatment is certainly relevant.

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Vladimir A. Malchevskiy

Tyumen State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: malchevski@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1308-2899
SPIN-code: 2918-1807
Scopus Author ID: SC 57194276974
ResearcherId: G-9557-2015

Dr. Sc. (Medicine), Professor RAS, Professor of the Department of Mobilisation Training of Public Health and Disaster Medicine

 

Russian Federation, 54, Odesskaya Str., Tyumen, 625023, Russian Federation

Murtuzali M. Murtuzaliev

Dagestan State Medical University

Email: opmfef@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8744-6026
SPIN-code: 2386-1860
ResearcherId: LLL-3506-2024

Dr. Sc. (Medicine), Professor, Professor of the Department of Biophysics, Informatics and Medical Devices, Department of Biophysics, Informatics and Medical Devices

 

Russian Federation, 1, pl. Lenina, Makhachkala, 367000, Dagestan, Russian Federation

Sergei. P. Sakharov

Tyumen State Medical University

Email: sacharov09@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1737-3906
SPIN-code: 9850-0460
Scopus Author ID: SC 55328409300

Cand. Sc. (Medicine), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Mobilisation Preparation of Public Health and Disaster Medicine

 

Russian Federation, 54, Odesskaya Str., Tyumen, 625023, Russian Federation

Aleksey V. Malchevskiy

Tyumen State Medical University

Email: malchevskiy_2018@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0005-2743-0697
SPIN-code: 9569-3048
ResearcherId: KPB-8145-2024

student

 

Russian Federation, 54, Odesskaya Str., Tyumen, 625023, Russian Federation

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