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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 23, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
You will want to read this – Dick Clark’s presentation to an Administrative Law judge about a Medicare denial for late effects of radiation to the bladder. Teaching an Administrative Law Judge a thing or two about hyperbaric medicine. For more information about...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 22, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
It was warm yesterday, and the sun is already out this morning. Most Houston homes have wet carpet on the driveway and the mold is already growing on wet sheetrock, as frozen pipes burst and filled homes with cold water. Saturday the plumber who finally arrived to fix...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 12, 2021 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, COVID-19 Diaries, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Here’s another installment from the intrepid critical care/hyperbaric physician who started “COVID Diaries” nearly a year ago. I am not identifying her so that she can speak more openly about her experiences. Now she is telling the evolving story of treating COVID...
