by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 24, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
WASHINGTON – 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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 8, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema
Lympha Press recently created monthly Lipedema & Lymphedema Patient Round Table Discussions featuring real patients’ inspiring testimonials and presentations from industry thought leaders like Dr. Karen Herbst. The webinars are free to patients and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Check out my editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic about the way that things have changed for the outpatient wound center. It happened again today — a patient could not afford a huge copay for a compression bandage, thanks to the fine print of his Medicare Advantage...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema, Undaunted Spirit Award
Nearly two decades ago, when I was the director of the Memorial Hermann Medical Center Lymphedema center, I met a young patient who was only about 10 years old at the time. Even as a child he was one of those inspiring, optimistic, “over-comers” who made a big...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 4, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
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.” The patient had a limb-threatening lesion, and his leg was...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 3, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
I’ll be speaking at this free event. You can see the complete details below, and you can register for free here: LympheHeroes June Meeting Even if you can’t attend live, be sure to register so we can provide you with the recorded link afterward!...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 3, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Best Publishing has kindly granted me permission to reproduce an article on Vascular Screening which I wrote for that magazine in 2010. I briefly discuss the difference between Transcutaneous oximetry (TcPO2) and skin perfusion pressure (SPP). There are many scholarly...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 2, 2021 | Don't Miss This
This patient has a serious neurological condition and was hospitalized for pneumonia. He developed what may have been a pressure injury on his left trochanter, but I think you can see from the appearance of this lesion that it’s not a simple pressure injury. Pressure...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
Watch the plenary sessions in this year’s UHMS virtual Annual Scientific Meeting June 10-12 Click here to register today! Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven care. Please...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
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. All 3 of these patients have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 17. The first patient completely healed a stage 4 pressure ulcer...
