by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 31, 2021 | COVID-19
A recent study published in JAMA discusses how Covid-19 affects the brain. In addition to losing one’s sense of smell (which is an effect on the nerve that enables you to smell), there are cognitive and attention deficits like “brain fog,” new-onset anxiety,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 30, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
There’s increasing interest in Vitamin D. I became focused on this after a series of patients who failed to heal operative wounds. I found their Vitamin D-OH levels were in the teens (in some cases, single digits) when 30 is the lowest value we want for wound healing....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 16, 2021 | COVID-19
For many years I kept the postcard above, depicting The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, taped to my bathroom mirror. Painted by Pierre-Jacques Volaire in 1777, it depicts the cataclysmic day in 79 A.D. when the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried under a thick carpet...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 15, 2021 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
The author of “COVID Diaries” reflects on the one year anniversary of the pandemic at her institution. All I can say is, wow — you need to read this. Giants walk among us, but some of them are disguised as ordinary people. –Caroline This Time Last Year One...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 10, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Dr. Carter has posted a new article on her site about the COVID pandemic. Her predictive models have consistently outperformed the ones the government favors (see the graphic above and then read her article). She always provides an unbiased scientific perspective, so...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 9, 2021 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Fight the Good Fight
Check out this excellent review article on the “Physiologic and biochemical rationale for treating COVID-19 patients with hyperbaric oxygen,” by the Research Committee of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) and published in Undersea and Hyperbaric...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 5, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
In 2019 when Dr. Gksoulias and I published “On the Origin of Intraoperative Pressure Injury: An Angiosomal Theory of Pressure Injury Formation,” I didn’t make a big deal about the photo above, but I think it’s time to talk about it. To look at this heel pressure...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 3, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
Over the years, I have created a few videos on my YouTube channel from serial photographs to show how Deep tissue injuries (DTI) and stage 4 pressure ulcers form from the inside out — at least, that’s what it looks like in these photos — although I can’t...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 2, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
Yesterday I posted a new pressure ulcer case report authored by Jenny Alderden, Dr. Tracey Yap and myself, which provides new evidence for the “inside out” vascular infarction theory of severe pressure ulcer formation (and which also explains Stage 1 pressure...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 1, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
More Evidence for Angiosomal Ischemia in This Report It’s finally out! The follow-up to the paper published previously about the angiosome theory of pressure injury! Pass this around freely because it was published Open Source. It has never made sense that external...
