About 185,000 amputations occur in the United States each year, and an estimated 3.6 million people are expected to be living with limb loss by 2050, according to background notes on the study.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/lifestyle/health_and_wellness/doctors-convert-veins-into-arteries-to-spare-patients-amputations/article_c2cd9aca-fa27-535f-8c79-a0aa74e53c53.html

And she wondered how many other serious infections, debilitating falls, and amputations could be avoided altogether with simple, home-based foot care … by nurses.

Source: https://businesswest.com/blog/footcare-by-nurses-focuses-on-preventive-care-quality-of-life/

“If the closed-loop system can reduce the risk of very expensive diabetes complications in the long-term — such as the need for dialysis, visual impairment and amputations — then they may be cost-effective.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/lifestyle/health_and_wellness/artificial-pancreas-device-may-help-folks-with-type-2-diabetes/article_948bcd0a-6c11-5693-ac52-d50de348fbc9.html

I have treated too many people with diabetes for whom dialysis, limb amputations, and/or blindness could have been prevented if they had just been able to see a medical provider sooner.

Source: https://ctmirror.org/2023/06/01/ct-extend-husky-health-insurance-immigration-status/

"Innovations that reduce the risk of foot ulceration, will reduce the need for amputations.

Source: https://www.business-live.co.uk/technology/footwear-concept-diabetics-receives-14m-28158611

“More than half of those soldiers wounded severely enough to require longer term medical care have lost limbs, with one in five requiring upper limb amputations.

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/russia-is-ramping-up-its-defence-spending-while-cutting-education-and-health-uk-says_uk_653627b8e4b011a9cf7a2e59

Physical injuries range from minor wounds like cuts, abrasions, and bruises to severe and life-altering conditions such as fractures, burns, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), and amputations.

Source: https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2023/09/understanding-personal-injury-causes-types-and-legal-implications/

"The vast majority of the remaining patients have complicated war injuries - terrible fractures and amputations, bad burns, head, abdominal, chest injuries, and many of which are complicated by severe wound infection."

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67474549?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

“Treating infections more effectively will have a significant impact on lowering the risk of amputations.”

Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41230963.html

“Wounded care is different from workplace injury,” Bespal’ko said, citing examples of mine-explosive injuries, craniocerebral injuries, amputations of limbs, and loss of sight and hearing.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/27/ukraine-railway-infrastructure-war-russia/