On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
Margin-directed antibiotic therapy after surgery for diabetic foot osteomyelitis is appealing, but surgical assessment, histopathology, and microbiology often provide different answers. A new Clinical Infectious Diseases Viewpoint explains why multidisciplinary interpretation and prospective standardization are essential.
Eller Entrepreneurs to Reduce Diabetic AmputationsKevin Reagan's recent coverage at Arizona Public Media features McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship's Intelliwound, a start up envisioning a world without diabetic foot amputations. "Every 20 seconds there is a diabetes related amputation globally", International Working Group on Diabetic Foot Disease. This is unacceptable. Intelliwound, is researching and designing smart wearable band-aids... Continue Reading →
