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Cardiovascular Wound Care

The Importance of Wound Care

A common warning sign of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is an ulcer or a wound that is slow to heal on the feet or legs. When sores or wounds do not get enough blood it can affect your body’s ability to heal the wound and increases the risk of infection. This is why patients with […]

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Peripheral Artery Disease Wound Care

Foot Ulcers & Wounds

The importance of preventing and recognizing foot wounds cannot be understated: Up to 24 percent of diabetic patients who develop a non-healing foot ulcer will require amputation; put another way, foot ulcers precede 85 percent of diabetes-related amputations. Foot Wounds and How they Occur How do foot wounds occur? Any number of factors can contribute […]

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