James talks to Dr Isuru Nammuni about an approach to the diabetic foot in this podcast. You’ll learn how to manage a patient with a foot ulcer during an after hours shift.
Summary Writer: Brandon Lau
Editor: James Edwards
Interviewee: Isuru Nammuni
Dr Isuru Nammuni is a Vascular and Endovascular surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He has clinical expertise in the medical and surgical management of vascular disease with a special interest in minimally invasive endovascular surgery, having completed overseas training and fellowships in Cambridge and Germany. He has academic appointments at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University and is heavily involved in clinical research and teaching.
With Dr Isuru Nammuni, Vascular Surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales, Australia
You are working the after hours shift and you are called to review a patient on the Endocrine ward. He is a 55-year-old man admitted with a foot ulcer and the nurses are concerned that they can no longer palpate his peripheral pulses.
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