Amputation Prevention
Actions on Diabetes
English - October 29, 2020 01:34 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Science diabetes patientinvolvement research type1diabetes type2diabetes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Amputation is one of the most feared complication of diabetes and preventive foot care can have an enormous impact on avoiding this outcome.
The Diabetes Action Canada foot care and amputation prevention team is looking at community-based approaches to improving treatments and avoiding lower limb amputations.
On this episode, Patient Partner Tom Weisz and Dr. Charles de Mestral discuss this work.