Dr. Javier Aragón is awarded in the United States for a conference on diabetic foot infections.
Dr. Javier Aragón, Head of Diabetic Surgery and Standing Service at La Paloma Hospital, received at the beginning of December the remium of the Paul Brand Commemorative Conference at the Desert Foot Foot Congress in Phoenix, Arizona (held on November 29as of December 2) with the Diabetic Foot Infections Conference: Lessons of a Spanish surgeon.
He becomes the first Spanish -speaking surgeon to receive the award in memory of Dr. Paul Brand.This is a recognition for its outstanding international contribution to the research and treatment of the diabetic foot especially in infections.
The doctor received this award from Professor Robert Frykbertg, head of the Podiatría Section in the Department of Surgery of the Carl T Veterans Medical Center.Hayden, Phoenix.
Desert Foot Conference
This Congress, held in Arizona from November 29 to December 2, in which Dr. Aragón has intervened with the conference mentioned above, is an educational program designed to allow health professionals to improve clinical care of patients withdiabetes and to improve communication between doctors and other feet care professionals.
The program allows participants to improve lower extremities rescue techniques, even in advanced cases.
International Experience and Recognition
Dr. Javier Aragón Sánchez has been dedicated to the treatment of the diabetic foot in the Canary Islands for more than 18 years.He is currently head of the Diabetic Surgery and Standing Service of La Paloma Hospital.He is a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for his thesis on infections in the bone in the diabetic foot where he obtained the maximum qualification.He has published three textbooks, more than 20 chapters in other books, more than 80 articles in international magazines and has been lecturer in 130 national and international events.
His extensive clinical and research experience of the diabetic foot has earned him the recognition of the medical collective by appointing him a member of honor of the Mexican Diabetic Foot Association, founding member of the Spanish Wound Society and former president of the Diabetic Study Group of the SocietySpanish diabetes.It currently belongs to the Board of Directors of the International Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons and the International Work Group on Diabetic Foot Infections (IWGDF).He has trained other surgeons in the management of complicated diabetic foot in other countries.
Diabetic foot unit of La Paloma Hospital
The diabetic foot unit of La Paloma Hospital, created in 1999, specializes in the prevention and control of the diabetic foot, one of the most serious complications of diabetes.
In this unit there is an exhaustive control of diabetes in the patient.The controls are carried out based on the risk of each person, being at least once a year, increasing according to the symptoms.
When ulcers arise, it means that the disease is without adequate control.The first thing that is done in this unit is to classify and identify the type of ulcer that the patient suffers to proceed to their attention.Interventions to treat them are based primarily on an adequate local treatment of injury, treatment of pressure infection and relief.
People with diabetes who have had a previous ulcer should take special care in the hygiene and care of the feet and in the use of adequate footwear.The great challenge also consists of preventing recurrences, since their rate in patients who havePresented an ulcer is around 70% at five years.Diabetic foot ulcers and diabetes associated amputations have five -year survival worse than some common types of cancer.