Lower limb preservation CoP webinar

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Here are some highlights and key messages from the session: 

• The best DFU prevention is foot screening and preventative foot care 
• When somebody develops a foot wound, we need to be able to address four equally important pillars of DFU wound care and healing: arterial insufficiency, infection, offloading, and care of the wound bed 
• Comprehensive diabetes management saves limbs 
• Vascular surgery and chiropody are central to amputation prevention 
• Team-based DFU care is cost-saving 
• Hospitals can promote community-based preventative foot care 

If you would like to review the studies discussed in this session: 

• Regional health care services and rates of lower extremity amputation related to diabetes and peripheral artery disease: an ecological study
• A novel Canadian multidisciplinary acute care pathway for people hospitalised with a diabetic foot ulcer
• Development, validation, and pilot implementation of a prognostic model to predict future foot complications among people with diabetes recently discharged from hospital 

Please join us for an LLP CoP webinar hosted by Ontario Health.

This month, we will be joined by Dr. Charles de Mestral, Vascular Surgeon, who will be presenting the work of Downtown East Toronto OHT/Unity Health's Lower Limb Preservation (LLP) Integrated Clinical Pathway (ICP).