AMP Session: Saving the Foot -- Let's Talk About It

Friday, October 14, 2022

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM PDT

Location: Julius 7-10

Moderator(s)

George A. Pliagas, MD, FACS, FRCSC

Vascular Surgery
ACV Centers
Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Centers Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

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Speaker(s)

Mohammad Mac Ansari, MD

Vice Chair Clinical Research / Director
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX

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Vickie R. Driver, DPM, MS, FACFAS

System Wide Medical Director
INOVA Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Centers Falls Church Virginia
Barry University , Miami Shores Florida
Anderson Island, WA

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Rick Bernstein, MD

Cardio-thoracic & Vascular Surgery
Advanced Cardiac & Vascular Centers
Las Vegas, Nevada

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In this panel discussion the focus is on saving the foot! Experts will discuss the anatomy, angiosomes, and how a foot ulcer is a sign of CLI. Practical tips for how to treat, recognizing when it can't be treated, and how it affects our wound care patients. Current and future treatment of Tibial and Pedal disease will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify strategies that have been taken to shape the future of lower extremity limb preservation and amputation prevention in high-risk patients
• Understand what we can do to further the evolution of limb preservation
Understand the Common Pitfalls in Saving Feet- most common clinical reasons that diabetic ulcers progress to amputation