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Lecture Assignment for Week 21
Monday, November 19, 2007
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| 1st Year Lecture |
| The Nutrition and Wound Healing Connection |
Cynthia Fleck, RN,MBA,BSN RN at St. Vincent Hospital
Indianapolis, IN
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Cynthia Fleck discusses how to access a patients nutritional status and how being malnourished can have an effect on the wound healing process. She will also discuss how to improve a patients wound healing with vitamins, minerals and alternate feeding methods.
This presentation was made possible by an Educational Grant from 
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| 2nd Year Lecture |
| Prophylactic Surgery in the Diabetic Foot |
John Steinberg, DPMEditor, PRESENT
Assistant Professor
Department of Plastic Surgery
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC
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In this lecture, Dr. Steinberg addresses the role of surgery in relieving pedal pressures and preventing diabetic foot ulcerations. He discusses the concepts and reasoning behind performing prophylactic surgery in this patient population. Emphasis is placed on the importance of proper patient selection and the corresponding risk vs. benefit dilemmas. Several pictorial case studies are presented depicting various foot deformities treated by prophylactic surgical intervention.
This presentation was made possible by an Educational Grant from 
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| 3rd Year Lecture |
| Lecture Not Available |
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This lecture is no longer available.
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