In a glittering event at Pasadena’s Langham Hotel, Keck School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, Vascular Surgery Division held its commencement ceremonies including both vascular and podiatric surgical graduates. For the first time, this included graduates of the Department’s limb preservation fellowship. Perhaps even more notable was that this is the first such “named” fellowship […]

David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance published his 500th peer reviewed manuscript in 2019, at age 50. He becomes the first podiatric surgeon in the history of the specialty to reach this landmark. He and his colleagues have become the first podiatric surgeons to publish in […]

Here are the IWGDF guidelines. Here are the nine separate guidelines divided into chapters for the profoundly interdisciplinary work. The full guidelines can be downloaded in one fell swoop here.

Important work from our friends and colleagues from Turkey and Washington (Prof. Ben Lipsky). Background The optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for treating orthopaedic implant infections after surgical drainage and complete implant removal is unknown.Methods This was a single-centre, unblinded, prospective trial randomizing (1:1) eligible patients to either 4 or 6 weeks of systemic, pathogen-targeted antibiotic […]

In the world of step goals and activity trackers, the number 10,000 can sound like a magic one. Many wearable devices that track the number of steps a person takes each day come pre-programmed with a daily goal of 10,000 steps. But while a large body of evidence shows that physical activity is good for […]

Important work from our Scottish colleagues Graham Leese and coworkers (with a little help from Nottingham). Some key take home messages: AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Our aim was to investigate amputation-free survival in people at high risk for foot ulceration in diabetes (‘high-risk foot’), and to compare different subcategories of high-risk foot. METHODS: Overall, 17,353 people with diabetes […]

David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at Keck School of Medicine became the first podiatric surgeon to keynote the Digital Diabetes Congress in San Francisco, yesterday. Presenting virtually after his flight was cancelled, the lecture featured SALSA and other group’s efforts spanning works from wearable […]

Superb work from Garcia and coworkers in Diabetes Care Abstract OBJECTIVE Nontraumatic major lower extremity amputations (LEAs) have been reported to be declining nationally; however, trends in Texas have been less well described. We evaluated demographic and clinical risk factors and revascularization associations for LEAs by using inpatient hospital discharge data in Texas from 2005 to […]

More people die of pressure ulcers than from auto accidents or from opioid abuse. The cost is more than $26 billion. Despite these data, this is often a silent condition that can go unrecognized. The good news is that much of this is preventable. Today, at Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California, […]