Pink but Perilous: Why Color Doesn’t Mean Healing
In this episode, a clinician explains why a pink wound isn’t always healing and why exposed tendon makes a wound high-risk and potentially limb-threatening. Takeaways: wound size and depth predict out...
22 Jan 13min
Stop Leaving the Pinky Toe: Why Incomplete TMA Amputations Fail
Dr. G explains why leaving the fifth digit after other forefoot amputations creates biomechanical imbalance, increased lateral pressure, and recurrent ulcers. He reviews the muscle and tendon changes ...
20 Jan 24min
Questions That MUST Be Asked Before the Cut: 12 Questions to Ask Before Any Amputation
This episode explains why limb salvage is a philosophy, not just a procedure, and gives the essential questions patients and clinicians must ask before consenting to a lower-extremity or digital amput...
19 Jan 22min
Size Matters- Size Is King: How Accurate Wound Measurement Saves Limbs
This episode explains why precise wound sizing—length, width, depth, surface area, volume, undermining and tunneling—is the most important metric in wound care. Dr. G covers practical measurement tech...
18 Jan 28min
Auto Amputation and Demarcation- When the Body Cuts You Off: Understanding Auto-Amputation
In this episode Dr. G explains auto-amputation — when severely ischemic tissue becomes irreversibly necrotic, the immune system walls it off (demarcation), and the dead segment desiccates and may spon...
18 Jan 22min
Wheelchair Wounds: How Sitting Can Cause Diabetic Foot Ulcers
This episode explores why wheelchair-bound diabetic patients are at high risk for foot ulcers despite not walking. It explains how static pressure, neuropathy, contractures, and poor positioning conce...
17 Jan 27min
Talking Dirty With Me - Wound Care Edition- The Clinically Candid Wound-Care Language That Saves Limbs
Dr. G breaks down essential wound-care terminology and explains why precise medical language matters for diagnosis, treatment, and communication with colleagues. The episode covers types of cell death...
17 Jan 33min
The Black Toe Manifesto -Black Toe, Big Stakes: How to Save Limbs — Ischemia vs Embolism vs Cholesterol Emboli
This episode explains why a "black toe" is usually a sign of systemic vascular failure and breaks down the three main causes—chronic digital ischemia, acute arterial embolism, and blue-toe (cholestero...
15 Jan 30min
