Saving limbs and lives: Building out an Ontario lower limb preservation strategy

Abstract

There are over 1,200 non-traumatic major lower-limb amputations every year in Ontario, the majority resulting from complications of vascular disease, diabetes or both. This equates to one lower-limb amputation every seven hours, and results in approximately $140 million in direct amputation health-care costs annually. CorHealth Ontario is collaborating with a provincial Advisory Committee to develop a multi-year provincial Lower-Limb Preservation Strategy. The strategy aims to facilitate a coordinated, integrated and patient-centred approach to lower-limb preservation care in Ontario.