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[APMAHelp]

There are some really great videos posted on YouTube about podiatric medicine. You can search "podiatric medicine" or "podiatry" and see some terrific stuff. Start with this one from APMA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqAGmzhKk7Y and then go on from there. You could spend all day watching this stuff.....

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[Stafocker]

There are some really great videos posted on YouTube about podiatric medicine. You can search "podiatric medicine" or "podiatry" and see some terrific stuff. Start with this one from APMA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqAGmzhKk7Y and then go on from there. You could spend all day watching this stuff.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbAf3xhqsZI

this is very popular about SCPM college.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtnUD02QtNo&feature=related

Former APMA president Terence Albright is in this one. He's the man.

 

[Snake Doctor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtnUD02QtNo&feature=related

Haha I like how that guy kicked the cart near the end iPOD!

 

[hyperpodia]

I was watching those videos and came across maggot therapy for wound treatment. Are there some DPMs out there who actually use maggots?

 

[diabeticfootdr]

I was watching those videos and came across maggot therapy for wound treatment. Are there some DPMs out there who actually use maggots?

Sure. Check out their website. www.monarchlabs.com
They're the only supplier of medical maggots in the US.

Here's a newscast of the use of maggots at our center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0hFdVdK8y4

The key concept is, surgical debridement is the best form of debridement. However, in patients that experience too much pain with clinic debridement and are too complicated (many comorbidities - high OR risk) to take to the OR, maggots are very useful.

You place them on the wound and remove them in 3 days. They are very small at the time you apply them and become like "puffy rice" when you remove them. The species used is the green blowfly. This species will not consume live tissue, only fibrotic and necrotic tissue - whereas other species will. That's why you shouldn't leave "home grown" maggots on a wound if you encounter this.

LCR