Eight collective clinical skills for members of a limb preservation program.

 Eight collective clinical skills for members of a limb preservation program.
1. The ability to perform hemodynamic and anatomic vascular assessment with revascularization, as necessary.
2. The ability to perform neurologic workup.
3. The ability to perform site-appropriate culture technique.
4. The ability to perform wound assessment and staging/grading of infection and ischemia.
5. The ability to perform site-specific bedside and intraoperative incision and debridement.
6. The ability to initiate and modify culture-specific and patient appropriate antibiotic therapy.
7. The ability to perform appropriate postoperative monitoring to reduce risks of re-ulceration and infection.
8. The ability to provide basic foot care education and referral into (and monitoring of) a home education program .