by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 3, 2020 | COVID-19
Check out this photo of the small but mighty women of my Wound Clinic. We won the hospital award for “most improved numbers” since COVID. We are trying to bring our clinic program back to health. It’s also a little window on the struggle of many hospitals to survive....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 31, 2020 | COVID-19
I feel it and so do you. Although I turned the television off a month ago, I am still reading the medical journals. I have decided not to even watch the news reports of fascist organizations taking over cities –but even the scientific news is not encouraging....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 30, 2020 | COVID-19
Rationale, Study Design Considerations, and Protocol Recommendations for Treating COVID-19 Patients with Hyperbaric Oxygen The UHMS Research Committee has completed their “Rationale, Study Design Considerations, and Protocol Recommendations for Treating Covid-19...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 30, 2020 | COVID-19
The game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” is based on the theory that nobody is more than six relationships away from any other person in the world. It was conceived in 1994 (before social media!) by students at Albright College who were watching the movie...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 28, 2020 | COVID-19
A comprehensive review of 20 years of data, recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, finds that U.S. vaccines are remarkably safe, thanks in part to ongoing safety surveillance after a vaccine hits the market. The authors reviewed all vaccines that were...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Guest Blog by Dr. Marissa Carter Here’s another fascinating article from Dr. Marissa Carter about a topic I am following closely – the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. –Caroline There are currently over 140 SARS-cov2 vaccine candidates (here’s the full list)....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Fight the Good Fight
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders continues its strong (and successful) advocacy helping wound management practitioners care for their patients and help patients access care during the COVID-19 crisis. The Alliance has collated important information and put it...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 23, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
In February of 2019, CMS approved hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as a topic for audit by the RACs (Recovery Audit Contractors) (see links below). I have not heard of any hospital getting a RAC audit, perhaps because of the COVID crisis, but it doesn’t appear that...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 22, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Yesterday there was a news report on one of the clinical trials using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to reduce the need for intubation in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. There is nothing magic about a hyperbaric chamber for COVID-19 related hypoxia. It is simply a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 21, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Here’s a guest blog from Dr. Helen Gelly on the topic of off-campus facility reimbursement, which has implications regarding the prospect of “site neutrality”. For more information on the topic of site neutrality, read this article by Dr. Helen Gelly, “Uncharted...
