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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 27, 2021 | Tales of the Medicare Disadvantaged, The Patient's Voice
This is a 61 year old patient with weeping legs due to edema from heart failure. When I first saw her, I did arterial screening with skin perfusion pressure and her SPP values were 54 mmHg and 60 mmHg with a reasonable pulse volume recording, which means she doesn’t...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 26, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
Speaker: Helen Gelly, MD, FUHM, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM HyperbaRXs Marietta, GA Moderator: Tyler Sexton, MD, DMT, CHWS, MAPWCA Please see the Zoom info below! ACHM is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: ACHM Webinar: Regulatory Updates in Hyperbaric Medicine...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 26, 2021 | Don't Miss This
This is a 37 yo man with a non-healing wound at the site of a left chest catheter port. He has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and the port for his chemotherapy was removed 4 weeks after it was put in because it looked infected. He has had an extensive region of erythema and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 25, 2021 | Don't Miss This
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). The cord is a thick, rope-like structure under the skin that can limit the...
