About Dr. Fife
Dr. Fife is a world-renowned wound care physician. She is the Director of the Wound Care Center at CHI St. Luke’s The Woodlands Hospital, CMO of Intellicure, Inc., Exec. Director of the US Wound Registry & Editor of Today’s Wound Clinic.
Report Honest Healing Rates
It’s time for Wound Care physicians and providers to stand up for truly honest outcomes and transparent quality reporting. If we don’t we may see our entire profession wiped out. Click here to read more.
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CMS has released the 2022 Proposed Rule for Hospital-Based Outpatient Departments
If you are currently working in a hospital-based outpatient wound center or ASC, then this proposed rule will impact your billing and payment.
A FREE Opportunity to Experience Wound Clinic Business!
The free sessions will be from 1–2 pm EST and run July 28 through Aug. 25.
The Hug Deficit
As a medical student, I remember being counseled by a very wise (and very brilliant) physician mentor about “therapeutic touch.” It might just be a pat on the arm – but he made a point to touch every patient he saw (naturally, in a socially appropriate way) even when...
Sometimes I Love Being Wrong
It happened again. L-arginine made me look foolish.
Anatomy and Destiny: A Venous Occlusion Causing Skin Breakdown
The pattern of the lesions was important. Pay attention to breakdown that follows the anatomical course of a vessel.
A Mysterious Case of Inside-Out Tissue Necrosis
What is worth considering about this case is the way in which these two wounds actually formed from the INSIDE to the OUTSIDE when the expanding hematoma caused ischemia of the overlying skin.
How EHRs Can Help Practitioners Address Nutritional Deficits with Patient, Real-Time Clinical Suggestions
I am ashamed of how many years it took for me to get serious about the impact of nutritional deficits in chronic wounds.
My “Simple Girl” Guide to Oral Nutritional Supplementation Based on the Nestle MNA Score
This approach may not be fancy, but it’s helping to get wounds healed.
Remember Why We Do It
Once again a patient reminded me why I’m here.
LympheHeroes Houston
Last week I had the honor of speaking at the 4th LympheHeroes Houston virtual meeting on the topic of “Lymphedema and Wound Care” – along with my friend and colleague Denise “Missy” Baylor, CLT.
Overcoming Barriers to Nutritional Screening By Making it Easy
Does your electronic health record (EHR) include nutritional screening tools?
Sens. Cramer, Tuberville, Hoeven Introduce HBOT Access Act
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, joined Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) in introducing the HBOT Access Act of 2021, a bill to make Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) an available resource for veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) who have exhausted other evidence-based treatment options.
Lipedema & Lymphedema Patient Round Table Discussions Available on YouTube
The webinars are free to patients and healthcare professionals.
The Fairy Tale is Over
Check out my editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic about the way that things have changed for the outpatient wound center.
The Inspiring Patient Journey of Cameron Ayala
Here’s a good reminder that we encounter heroes every day – from all age groups, races and backgrounds.
Treating the Patient and Not the Wound
Check out this article by Efthymios Gkotsoulias, David Kuten and me, published in the April issue of Today’s Wound Clinic entitled, “Multidisciplinary Teams, All the Time: Treat the Patient and Not the Wound.”
Reminder: Register For Free Lymphedema Webinar June 24th, 2021 @ 12PM CST
Even if you can’t attend live, be sure to register so we can provide you with the recorded link afterward!
Vascular Screening Basics: TcPO2 vs. SPP
Best Publishing has kindly granted me permission to reproduce an article on Vascular Screening which I wrote for that magazine in 2010.
Don’t Miss This – It’s Not A Pressure Injury, It’s Pyoderma Gangrenosum
This patient has a serious neurological condition and was hospitalized for pneumonia.
UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting Saturday, June 12: Plenaries
The UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting is coming up. Registration details inside.
Starving In Plain Sight
I can’t decide if I am seeing more truly starving patients since I started focusing on nutrition or if I’m just more sensitive to it.
Medicare Disadvantage Strikes Again – No Skilled Home Health Services?
Home health services have been abused in the Medicare Fee for Service program, but NOT providing them is not the answer.
ACHM May Webinar: Hyperbaric Grand Rounds – Regulatory Updates in Hyperbaric Medicine
Zoom info inside!
Don’t Miss This: Chemotherapy Induced Chronic Ulcer
This chronic ulcer was caused by extravasation of his chemotherapy agent into the tissues adjacent to the port.
Axillary Web Syndrome Revealed
Axillary web syndrome (AWS), also known as cording, can occur as side effect of breast cancer surgery – usually when surgery has been performed on the lymph nodes of the axilla (armpit).
Don’t Miss This: Wounds as a Symptom of Marfan’s Syndrome and a Nerve Root Compression
What are these wounds a symptom of? Marfan’s Syndrome, one of the genetic collagen deposition disorders.
With Juven, It Wasn’t Palliative Care
This patient was dying of a degenerative disease and his calorie intake was insufficient.
