A Patient’s Guide to Prevent Lower Extremity Amputations: An American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS) Initiative
DOI: 10.56885/LHYR3902
By Virginie Blanchette PhD DPM MSc Biomed and Matthew C Bunte MD MS FSVM FSCAI FACC
Abstract: The Limb Preservation Alliance is an international collaborative alliance between four founding organizations: American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS), the Canadian Podiatric Medical Association, D-Foot international and Wounds Canada. The purpose of this alliance is to advance limb preservation, education, advocacy and awareness. With the aim of sharing and mobilizing knowledge within the alliance, the ALPS education committee, with the help of patients who have experienced diabetic foot disease, have developed a patient resource to provide facts about foot and leg wound prevention and management and act against preventable amputation.