| Team Approach to Limb Preservation |
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The Denver Clinic for Extremities at Risk is a team of medical professionals who specialize in management and treatment of conditions and diseases that place people at risk of losing an extremity. At Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center and The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children for over 20 years, this group has established itself as the Rocky Mountain region's premier medical community to evaluate and treat diseases and trauma that affect the extremities.
The Denver Clinic for Extremities at Risk, originally the Institute for Limb Preservation, was first envisioned in mid to late 1986 when Dr. Ross Wilkins and Dr. Tom Arganese discussed plans for a multi-disciplinary organization to treat patients with limbs that are in danger of amputation from a cancer, infection and non-healing bones. In addition, it was felt that providing a service for replantation of traumatically amputated extremities was also necessary in the Rocky Mountain west.
The concept of this umbrella organization to evaluate and treat a person with a "limb in jeopardy" no matter what the cause was quite unique and remains unique in the medical community, not only in this country but worldwide. There are institutions that specialize, for instance, in treatment of limbs with cancer, and there are other institutions that deal with severe infections, but there really is no other organization that deals with all of these under the umbrella of the same organization.
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Our group brings together important components of patient care:
The Extremities at Risk team focuses on treatment of extremity problems.
Our main areas of treatment are:
The cornerstone of Extremities at Risk Program is a weekly clinical conference where medical specialists gather to discuss clinical issues and potential patient treatment plans. The clinical conference matches advanced protocols or successful new surgical techniques to the individual patient. The treating physician will often return with follow-up information about the results, aiding in future discussions regarding patients with similiar problems.
| David P. Schnur, MD |
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Dr. Schnur is a plastic surgeon in practice at the Plastic Surgery Clinic. He attended medical school at the University of Arizona, and his general surgery and plastic surgery residencies were completed at the University of Pennsylvania. His fellowship in Hand and Microvascular Surgery was completed in San Antonio, TX.