Diabetic foot

Authors:
David Armstrong Professor of Surgery The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA

Ryan Fitzgerald,Podiatric Surgeon, Virginia

Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)

2008-10-04

Source: Public Health Image Library

The Diabetic Foot : Prevention Amputations and Improving Quality of Life, from the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, SALSA 

The most common reason for hospital stay amongst people with Diabetes is not a heart attack or a stroke, but an infected foot wound. This info, taken from DiabeticFootOnline.com, provides information to the patient and caregiver to increase awareness about this silent epidemic.