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Reducing amputation rates in patients with diabetes at a military medical center

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VR Driver, J Madsen, RA Goodman - Diabetes Care, 2005 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE— To describe and evaluate the Limb Preservation Service (LPS), a
multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art, foot care clinic for patients with diabetes at Madigan Army Medical
Center (MAMC). Evaluation criteria include the overall incidence of lower-extremity ...
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[PDF] Creation of a multidisciplinary, evidence based, clinical guideline for the …


PR Wraight, SM Lawrence, DA Campbell, PG Colman - Diabetic Medicine, 2005 - ptolemy.ca
Methods A systematic search of both published (identified by searching all major electronic databases
and hand searching key journals) and unpublished literature (derived from national and internationally
recognized experts) identi- fied 266 articles specific to diabetes related foot ...
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Therapeutic footwear in diabetes

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AJM Boulton - Current Diabetes Reports, 2002 - Springer
Introduction: Foot ulceration is common, affecting 15% of diabetic patients during their
lifetime; moreover, ulcers precede 80% of lower limb amputations in diabetic individuals, and
they remain a very common precipitant of hospitalization of patients in western countries. ...
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Preventing foot ulcers and amputations in diabetes


GE Reiber, GJ Raugi - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier
Prevention and care of foot problems in people with diabetes needs dedicated leaders, a model
for change with sound planning, and participation of providers, patients, and the health-care
systems. 15 Certainly, we need additional research on the best ways to bring complex ...
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Explanations for the high risk of diabetes-related amputation in a Caribbean …


AJM Hennis, HS Fraser, R Jonnalagadda, J Fuller, … - Diabetes Care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc
RESULTS—The overall 1-year incidence of LEA (n = 223) was 173 per 10 5 population and
936 per 10 5 population with diabetes (557 per 10 5 for minor amputation and 379 per 10 5 for
major amputation). Women had higher amputation rates than those reported in the Global ...
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[CITATION] Diabetes and foot care: time to act


K Bakker, AVM Foster, WH Van Houtum, P Riley - … Working Group of the Diabetic Foot, 2005
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[PDF] Amputation prevention by vascular surgery and podiatry collaboration in high-risk …


CC Van Gils, LA Wheeler, M Mellstrom, EA Brinton, … - Diabetes Care, 1999 - Am Diabetes Assoc
F rom the Departments of Surg e ry, Medicine, and Quality Management, Veterans Affairs' Medical
Center, Phoenix, Arizona. A dd ress correspondence and reprint requests to C. Gene
Wheeler, MD, Chief of Vascular Surg e ry, VA MC Phoenix, 650 E. Indian School Rd., ...
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Risk of amputation in patients with diabetic foot ulcers: a claims-based study


JS Markowitz, EM Gutterman, G Magee, … - Wound Repair and …, 2006 - interscience.wiley.com
The objective of this study was to undertake a retrospective analysis of claims data of diabetic
foot ulcer (DFU) patients to determine the rates of amputation and identify the risk and protective
factors. Rates of amputation were calculated in patients diagnosed with DFU in the ...
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Hyperbaric oxygen as an intervention for managing wound hypoxia: its role and …


MB Strauss - Foot Ankle Int, 2005 - 万方数据资源系统
Few topics in diabetic wound management generate as much "heated" discussion as hyperbaric
oxygen (HBO). Hyperbaric oxygen is an intermittent inhalation therapy in which the patient breathes
oxygen at greater than 1 atm of pressure. This requires placement of the patient into a ...
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[PDF] The multidisciplinary approach to limb salvage


BE Sumpio, J Aruny, PA Blume - Acta Chir Belg, 2004 - belsurg.org
Ulcers are breaks in the dermal barrier with subsequent erosion of underlying subcutaneous
tissue. In severe cases the breach may extend to muscle and bone. The prevalence of leg ulceration
in the general population of western nations has been reported to be from 1 to 3.5%, with ...
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