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and Achievements(2002-2006)
1) The Bryn Mawr Wound Care and Vascular Center was founded in April 2002 by John R. Filip, M.D. And Marvin A. Preske, D.P.M (*Please note that: " The Bryn Mawr Wound Care Center" is not to be confused with the Bryn Mawr Hospital or The Wound Healing Center at the Bryn Mawr Hospital. "The Bryn Mawr Wound Care Center" is a different entity and is not part of the Bryn Mawr Hospital.") 2) The Center is the largest clinic utilizing the Circulator Boot System the United States. We have treated patients coming from all over the US, and from around the world including Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Canada; the Circulator Boot System is also used in the Mayo Clinic, at Temple University, and at various centers in California and Florida (ref. also to www.circulatorboot.com). 3) With this system we have incredible success with improvement in patient’s leg healing rates. We have reversed many patients’ leg healing rates by preventing amputations; currently we have a 93% recovery rate in the patients approved for treatment. 4) We have one of the most effective ways of speeding up healing rates in very ill patients such as those with diabetes, kidney involvement, and in extremely advanced cases of peripheral arterial disease or inoperable vascular disease; we have referrals from physicians when there is nothing else to be offered to their patients. These physicians trust in us, in their opinion, as the last hope before a patient loses a foot or a leg and when all other treatment measures have failed.
6) Dr. Richard Dillon explains how the Circulator Boot System works in the website: www.circulatorboot.com. According to him, “a leg with poor arterial blood flow may be likened to a dirty sponge that is half wet squeezing such a sponge disseminates the water throughout the sponge. Soaking and wringing the water repeatedly from the sponge may help clean it. In like fashion, the heart monitor of the Circulator Boot System is timed to allow each arterial pulse wave to enter the leg as best it can (to partially wet the leg “sponge”). Boot compressions provide a driving force to disseminate blood around the leg and at the same time press venous blood and excess tissue water from the leg. Patients with a pulse rate of 80 beats per minute might receive 4800 such compressions an hour. Patients with severe arterial leg disease might receive 100 such treatments or close to a half million compressions! Breakdown of clot, rechannelization of blocked vessels and the formation of new small vessels may help restore blood flow.” 7) At the Center we perform patient evaluation and work-ups of vascular status, give Circulator Boot System treatments, perform debridements and apply dressing changes, antibiotic and maggot therapies, sea soaks, and all other routine wound care procedures. We also have access to other medical specialties or techniques such as angioplasty, endocrinology, infectious disease valuation, and plastic and vascular surgeons.
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