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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: November 2008

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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Diabetes and Feet.What’s the Big Deal? Shouldn’t every diabetic know the details so this could be prevented? With each and every new patient with diabetes, they either fully comprehend the risks of diabetes to their feet (very rare) or they have no clue (very common). With every one of these folks I feel that the one goal is to get them to understand that diabetic foot problems are optional. . 160; Seems like such a hassle. When your blood sugar is high, there is a chemical rea...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: May 2009

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Monday, May 25, 2009. Evaluating the Competency of Your Diabetic Foot Treatment Team: Essential Skill #2: Testing for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in the Feet. Evaluating the Competency of Your Diabetic Foot Treatment Team: Essential Skill #2: Testing for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in the Feet. In these discussions, we discuss each of the 7 essential skills that your diabetes treatment team must use in order to help you prevent an amputation related to your diabetes. In addition to being low cost a...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: Essential #5 of Your Diabetic Foot Team: Be Prepared to Surgically Drain Infection or Remove Gangrene.

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Sunday, June 28, 2009. Essential #5 of Your Diabetic Foot Team: Be Prepared to Surgically Drain Infection or Remove Gangrene. In these discussions, we discuss each of the 7 essential skills that your diabetic foot treatment must possess. As an educated patient you will be able to evaluate the competency of your treatment team. Having a competent team will help you prevent an amputation related to your diabetes. Today we will discuss essential skill number five:. Emergency surgery is very common in treati...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: December 2008

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. High Rate of Diabetes and Diabetic Related Foot Amputations. Monday, December 29, 2008: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on the high rate of diabetes and diabetic related foot amputations. Poor diet and lack of exercise are all contributing factors to these sorts of complications related to diabetes. Patterns of diet and exercise appeared to have geographic correlation. The Dartmouth Atlas also reveals that African-Americans nationwide have four times the amputation rate of...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: Even President Obama Doesn't Understand the Cost of a Diabetic Foot Amputation

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Monday, November 16, 2009. Even President Obama Doesn't Understand the Cost of a Diabetic Foot Amputation. Click here for President Obama's Video of Getting the Cost of Diabetes Wrong. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Diabetic foot amputations are preventable. True. But only with diabetic patients and doctors working together diligently. If the nerves to the feet are damaged one is placed at enormous risk of diabetic foot ulcers that can easily become infected and lead to amputation. Once a sore begins,...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: 7 Essential Skills Your Diabetes Treatment Team Must Have

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Friday, May 22, 2009. 7 Essential Skills Your Diabetes Treatment Team Must Have. A recent publication was released in e-Plasty, an open access journal of plastic surgery. The subject matter of this article contain new guidelines for treating physicians (who may or may not be experts in diabetic foot disorders) to prevent amputations among diabetic patients. This article cited seven essential skills that are absolutely necessary in order to provide the very best outcomes in terms of diabetic limb salvage.

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: Why don’t you accept insurance?

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Saturday, June 13, 2009. Why don’t you accept insurance? Having been a foot doctor and surgeon in private practice who did at one time accept insurance, I realized that the insurance company is only interested in protecting their profits. In fact, the CEO of United Insurance company once stated that the insurance company would never attempt to keep doctors on the insurance plans at the expense of their profits. Anyone with diabetes or any complicated medical condition deserves to have explanations. T...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: Essential Skill #6 of Your Diabetic Foot Team: Evaluate Cultures and Change Antibiotics to Fight Bacteria Causing the Infection

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Essential Skill #6 of Your Diabetic Foot Team: Evaluate Cultures and Change Antibiotics to Fight Bacteria Causing the Infection. In these discussions, we cover each of seven critical skills that your diabetic foot treatment must possess. As an educated patient you will be able to evaluate the competency of your treatment team. Having a competent team will help you prevent an amputation related to your diabetes. Today we will discuss essential skill number six:. And antibiotic such...

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Diabetes Amputation Prevention: September 2009

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Friday, September 25, 2009. New Report Shows Increasing Rates of Amputation Related to Diabetes in Hospitalized Patients. LancasterOnline.com:News:Hospital report: Mixed ratings. Posted by My Running Doc. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I Need My Feet. Diabetes Lifestyle and Prevention. No More Heel Pain. Ankle and Foot Center of Chattanooga. New Report Shows Increasing Rates of Amputation Re. What about the diabetic lifestyle challenges you most? Subscribe To Prevention Tips. Fitness Tip of the Day.