Episode 50: Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) awareness month | Dr. Juan Carlos Correa
In today’s episode, our guest Dr. Juan Carlos Correa, the managing physician at
Modern Vascular Overland Park Clinic talks about the new tools and new techniques that they do in a very simple outpatient setting to help save people's legs.
The company is doing complex vascular treatment and interventions despite the influence of the pandemic on their staff and in providing healthcare to their patients, they advocate for Peripheral Arterial Disease and mitigate the stigma underlying the disease in order to spread awareness and educate on proper treatment.
We’ll be discussing:
- How Modern Vascular cope with the pandemic
- Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) awareness month
- Symptoms, causes, and treatment of PAD
- Treatment centers and procedures in treating PAD
- Prevention and awareness for Diabetes
- Amputation statistics in the USA
Timestamps:
[00:00:35] Background of Dr. Juan Carlos Correa
[00:01:55] Innovation and medical contribution of Modern Vascular Overland Park Clinic
[00:03:17]Healthcare practice and how they cope up during COVID
[00:04:23] Integration of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) awareness month
[00:07:13] Modern Vascular centers: the forefront of PAD treatment
[00:08:46] Causes and symptoms of developing PAD
[00:10:24] The magnitude of amputation rate in the USA
[00:13:20] The Diabetes epidemic
[00:15:16] How Modern Vascular help PAD patients and prevent them from having an amputation
[00:16:28] Rapid fire round
Resources:
Modern Vascular