Routine Foot Care
The Nurse Practitioner Podcast
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The Importance of Advanced Practice Nursing in Addressing Healthcare Disparities
The most initiating event, the thing that makes it occur, make them need to have an amputation is they get a foot ulcer. Foot ulcers are very common in patients who have diabetes but if it's unmanaged, untreated, 85% of them can have an amputations. About 75,000 patients who do undergo a lower extremity amputation is related to diabetes. Other causes may include peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy and even trauma.
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