11/17/2021
The more accurate title may have been, “why are we failing?” This is not a failure or condemnation of the wound care community. Diabetes related amputation rates continue to rise despite the further development of limb saving and wound healing techologies over the past 25 years. How do we solve this? We, not being limited to health care professionals!
Despite better technology and a seeming decline in lower extremity amputation in the past, why are we now experiencing increase in both minor amputation and amputation at every level from the toe to above the knee?
