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Amit Jain Institute Of Diabetic Foot & Wound Care: Centre of Excellence That Offers Treatment for Diabetic Foot Following Modern Diabetic Foot Surger

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Diabetes is a common yet life threatening disease that needs the right and proper care to look after. Although there are well established clinical centres that take care of diabetes, the numbers for exclusive diabetic foot are less. Amit Jain’s Institute of Diabetic foot and Wound Care, an eponymous wing of Brindhavvan Areion Hospital, Bengaluru, was named after Dr. Amit Jain five years ago by the board of directors of this hospital in view of his phenomenal dedicated work in this field and as a mark of respect to Dr. Amit, who is the founder and father of modern and also super modern diabetic foot surgery system that was developed in Indian subcontinent over a decade of dedicated original innovative work. Dr. Amit is a professor, surgeon, and senior consultant and is one of the first and few qualified diabetic foot surgeons in Karnataka who completed his postdoctoral fellowship in podiatric surgery after his general surgery training in 2007. He heads this wing that exclusively deals with infections and wounds in patients with diabetes and this wing works on Dr. Amit's model for the diabetic foot, a successful published model. Dr. Amit had laid down the first principle and practice of diabetic foot, which is a unique feat in medical literature. Dr. Amit.

The main factor that separates the diabetic foot wing of Brindhavvan Areion Hospital from all other clinical institutes is the fact that the right man heads the right wing. This wing has a qualified diabetic foot surgeon and it is strongly supported by different specialists and nurses. Most of the recent concepts of modern and super modern diabetic foot surgery and innovations have been developed at Brindhavvan Areion Hospital and many of such methods are only practiced at this hospital by its innovators. Managing diabetic foot requires a multidisciplinary approach and revolves around those people who have a deep passion to treat this malady and most of the experts in the city and the country are aware of the dedication that Dr. Amit's team possesses. The team consists of dedicated wound care assistants/nurses apart from research experts who are involved in research publications from Brindhavvan Areion Hospital. The team is constantly supported by the emergency department, radiology department, and ICU team, which is well equipped to deal with serious diabetic patients apart from physicians and cardiologist. The hospital has a dedicated operation theatre that deals with diabetic foot and various other infections.

Brindhavvan Areion Hospital, though a private hospital, is also associated with philanthropic work for five years through Dr. Amit's Project for Diabetic Foot. This is the largest independent project in this field from India and is involved in training doctors & nurses along with strategies aimed in decreasing amputation in India and abroad. Amit Jain’s Institute of Diabetic Foot and Wound Care is one of the few centres in Bangalore involved in foot saving surgeries and also amputation preventive strategies. The fastest screening tool in the diabetic foot has recently been developed here and published in many reputed Diabetic Foot Journals in the Middle East and the UK. This screening tool also known as Amit Jain’s Triple assessment/Amit Jain's Linear Foot Test, is widely practiced in the hospital and is aimed at early detection of complications. The institute also has Amit Jain's diabetic foot lab that carries out essential investigations as recommended by international bodies. The efficacy of Amit Jain’s offloading technique has lately been implemented in the institute, which showed that more than 85 percent of patients’ wounds have been healed within eight weeks as per published data.

However, new wings have been inaugurated in 2020 at Amit Jain's Institute of Diabetic Foot and Wound Care to expand its services and new treatment strategies.