Imaging hearing that your leg below the knee needs to be amputated to save your life.
That is what thousands of Canadians are going through each year, with the largest cause - #diabetes. On this new podcast for @CIHI_ICIS hear how diabetes cost Calgary resident Harish Rangan part of a foot and a leg. He wants to spare others the trauma. So do doctors like Karim Manji, director of the @ZivotLPC, part of a team studying preventive footcare to head off disabling surgeries.
#WorldDiabetesDay2024
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Diabetes can be devastating. Harry Rangan who is featured in this podcast for @CIHI_ICIS shares some candid pictures of how the disease cost him part of a leg. Hard to look at but important to understand why treatment and prevention are so important. Share this podcast with those in your life with diabetes.
Question - why does Calgary have a lower rate of lower limb amputations linked to #diabetes than Edmonton?
Similar population and health system services.
That's the question being asked by researchers at @ZivotLPC@GoAHealth - Could it be linked to something called the "Toe and Flow" model of care? To learn more, listen to this podcast from @CIHI_ICIS with @KarimManji and one of his patients.
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🙏 Thank you to all the authors and clinicians for the fantastic collaboration! @Shehroz_SKhan , @MilosRPopovic, @KarimManji, Ali Abedi, Chau Nguyen, John Toole
Our Toe and Flow Team has achieved significantly better outcomes, decreased hospitalization & length of stay rates for patients w/ diabetes-related foot complications in regions of AB that have access to our program in comparison to those w/out access... https://t.co/lHz1RCgWXu
The Rose Zivot Fellowship in Limb Preservation and Foot Reconstructive Surgery application for 2024/2025 is now open! Checkout the program at https://t.co/hv3hgq5Ca9. Application deadline is Dec.1, 2023.
Thank you #ICAIR2023 for the award! Wonderful conference! And thank you @MilosRPopovic, @Shehroz_SKhan and @KarimManji for inspirations, ideas and support!
We are excited to announce the launch of The Rose Zivot Fellowship in Limb Preservation and Foot Reconstructive Surgery, with our first Fellow starting August 1st 2023! Read more about our program and follow us on Instagram @zivotlpcyyc for updates. https://t.co/FBhXIrSfNP
Here is a rare glimpse behind the doors of one of the top specialized medical units in the country: A clinic in Calgary that helps move the needle of the long wait lists for surgery. Cami Kepke reports. #yyc
Had the opportunity to celebrate a donation for the development of a 2nd minor surgery operating room at ZLPC and hear about the impact it has had.
"Had I waited another 48 hours, I would have lost my leg. This is best place in Canada if not the world in limb preservation."
From COVID research to limb preservation and digital health technology, meet #UCalgaryMed innovators Drs. Jason Weatherald, MD, Karim Manji, DPM, and Victoria Hodgkinson-Brechenmacher, PhD, in Pt 3 of a series celebrating this year's #Top40yyc honourees: https://t.co/VVTrQ7dvjb
“Saving a limb is important because it maintains someone’s independence and quality of life" - Congratulations to our director @KarimManji! https://t.co/iklg69T9iV