On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
The same test now frequently used to assess risk for heart disease may now help prevent amputations according to researchers at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago and the University of Arizona. "The results of this study, led by Dr. Adam Fleischer, were somewhat surprising to us", noted David G. Armstrong, Professor... Continue Reading →
The core theme of our team at SALSA has been "team". What my friend and co-director Joe Mills and I have found in participating in and developing amputation prevention initiatives in North America and around the world is that the "irreducible minimum" to this team involves a "toe team" (someone taking care of the foot... Continue Reading →
With the ever increasing rise in prevalence of "superbugs" and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal species in hospitals, clinics and public/private places around the world, it seems that both clinicians and their patients have taken a significant interest in this area. Recently, we developed a series of lectures on this topic it is available here. Enjoy.
In putting this blog together, we have surprisingly already been contacted with requests from clinicians and people with diabetes. To that end, we would formally announce that we are happy to expound on any issue related to diabetes, wound healing, and amputation prevention put out there. To that end, as per request, here is the... Continue Reading →
This week, we at SALSA have some patients who have a certain degree of bone involvement in their wounds that might benefit from locally implanting a high degree of antibiotics. This again reminded us of the requests we often received for how to mix medical-grade calcium sulfate with various classes of antibiotics. Tobramycin, Gentamicin and... Continue Reading →
In the work we have been doing with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) along with our own work at SALSA, we have proposed the following key skill set for any "rapid response team" dedicated to amputation prevention: Ability to perform site-appropriate culture technique Ability to perform vascular work-upAbility to perform revascularization, as necessary Ability to perform... Continue Reading →
This from our @UofA / @BCM, UTSouthwestern and Oklahoma SALSA team. 6.7 million diabetic foot ulcers, 785 million diabetes-related outpatient visits and 5.5 billion visits overall suggest that diabetic foot ulcers are common, complex, and costly. Compare this frequently silent and sinister problem to CHF, MI, stroke. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate ambulatory clinical cases of diabetic foot... Continue Reading →
This abstract is from an upcoming JAPMA manuscript from Joe Mills and me. We have been using this terminology in our clinic for some time and believe it truly makes a difference. Here's to measuring that effect! We credit our friend and colleague Jeff Robbins with simultaneously working on this subject as well and for... Continue Reading →
Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology is an electronic-only publication, indexed in MEDLINE by the National Library of Medicine. The journal publishes latest research, analyses, reviews, editorials, and commentaries from the leaders in the field of diabetes technology. In it's recent issue, the journal published the Part 1 of 2, for a special symposium on... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/_G9ZZ0MfbkU Authorship: Nicholas A. Giovinco Julia Bernardini David G. Armstrong The Receptor Activator for Nuclear Factor kappa B Ligand is believed to be an important molecule of bone metabolism. This is a natural and necessary surface-bound molecule on several types of cells, and serves to activate osteoclasts. Overproduction of RANKL is implicated in a variety... Continue Reading →
