These techniques can save limbs and lives.
The recent global SarsCoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic significantly disrupted the delivery of healthcare across many disciplines and the effect of the pandemic has had an especially detrimental effect on people with diabetes-related foot complications, resulting in more amputations. Major level lower extremity amputation is one of the most feared complications of diabetes. One study found that patients with diabetes and lower extremity complications were more in fear of major amputation than death.1 In many cases, major level amputations can result in loss of function, decline in quality of life, and even death … read more