by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 9, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Novitas and First Coast have retired their Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Because the National Coverage Determination (NCD) for HBOT remains in place, theoretically coverage for HBOT should not change as a result. At least...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 8, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Dr. Marissa Carter has posted a new blog about the latest COVID-19 news, including a vaccine update. Vaccines It’s been an interesting week! First, there have been a number of reports that both the Russians and Chinese have started vaccination programs in their own...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Undaunted Spirit Award
I’ve talked about my inspirational patient, Morgan McCoy, who is my antidote to the COVID Blues. Morgan, her parents, her orthopedic surgeon (Dr. Kyle Dickson) and I recently participated in Virtual Wound Rounds with Frank Aviles. If you are involved in wound...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 1, 2020 | US Wound Registry
As I’ve discussed before, I actually stopped performing prospective trials in wound care because the trials were not “generalizable,” meaning, the patients enrolled in studies to evaluate wound healing modalities bear no resemblance to the patients we see. I talked...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 27, 2020 | Miscellaneous Musings
Last night, Laura, a category 4 hurricane, flattened Lake Charles, LA and many nearby areas along the Texas-Louisiana border. It missed us in Houston by a few miles. I fretted about my friends in the path all night and turned on the news this morning to find out just...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 25, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema
In 1998, when I initiated a lymphedema program within a busy wound center, I had no idea what I was doing. I had been running the Memorial Hermann Wound Center in the Texas Medical Center for eight years by then. Women with post-mastectomy lymphedema began to call...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 24, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
If you missed the live stream Webinar on the use of HBOT for COVID-19, you can watch the recorded session and receive CME credit. See the information from the UHMS. –Caroline Evidence Review for HBO2 Treatment of Covid-19 Webinar now available for CME/CEU Credit...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 20, 2020 | Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema, Uncategorized
For more than two decades I’ve had the opportunity to work with Dr. Eva Sevick and her team at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston on the development of real-time lymphatic imaging. In fact, above is a photo of me many years ago, with one of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 19, 2020 | The Patient's Voice, Undaunted Spirit Award
If you are struggling with the COVID blues (like me) and need some encouragement, check out the editorial in the July issue of Today’s Wound Clinic. The theme of the issue was amputation prevention, and I asked Morgan McCoy to be the guest editor. Morgan is a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Fight the Good Fight
The theme of the August issue of Today’s Wound Clinic is “Multidisciplinary Care.” I decided to interview my amazing staff (pictured holding the hospital award for the clinic coming back the strongest since the pandemic, from left to right: Tara Stone, Debi...
