by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 17, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight
I am still exploring the use of transdermal oxygen for certain types of ischemic ulcers. The foot injury depicted in these photos occurred when a training weight fell on a professional athlete’s foot and avulsed the distal ends of the left great, second and third...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 17, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
If you have been in wound care for any length of time, you have seen a patient like this. The local cancer is eradicated, and then we handle the aftermath. I tried to get a video of the day I could see her lung moving but it was a TINY little hole under the rib after...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 11, 2019 | Don't Miss This, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
I recently saw a patient with digital ischemia who got improvement in both pain and tissue viability with transdermal oxygen from the OxyBand dressing. There are a lot of possible reasons for digital ischemia, so it’s important to know why the patient has ischemic...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 6, 2020 | Don't Miss This
The Mysterious Case of the Ischemic Achilles There’s a case report published online in “Vascular Disease Management” that is worth some conversation. The patient underwent a dermatological procedure on the back of the left calf that involved cryotherapy. About two...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 21, 2019 | Healthcare Payment Policy
I’ve got a lot of patients who have had very targeted local radiation. Some of them got radiation years ago for really questionable reasons, the others for only recently. The non-healing wounds present in the irradiated field can be small but really persistent. The...
