by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 6, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Healthcare Payment Policy
I am a huge fan of attorney Knicole Emanuel’s legal blog. Here’s a link to her most recent post about the current expiration date of the COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency (PHE). Unless it is renewed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
I read this post by Dr. Marissa Carter with a sinking heart. Houston is now the epicenter of the second wave, and most hospitals are at capacity. The shutdown came for us before most of the population had been exposed (unlike New York City, for example), so we knew...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 25, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
On June 11, 2020 the Diving, Hyperbaric Medicine and Difficult Wounds Fellowship was launched as a sub specialty of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), in Davao City. SPMC is the biggest government hospital in the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 19, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here’s another blog by Marissa Carter, PhD. Her background in epidemiology and data modeling help us interpret the tidal wave of information on COVID-19. We are all grateful for her insights. –Caroline Earlier this week while drinking my first coffee, I was...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 16, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out a recent blog post by Dick Clarke, President of National Baromedical Services, Inc, about the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) “Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2020,” assessment of Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for DFUs. The ADA’s assessment of HBOT...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here’s another insightful blog from Dr. Marissa Carter. Read her previous (very popular) blogs on the origins of COVID-19 and other topics by clicking here. –Caroline The WHO said WHAT about COVID-19? The World Health Organization (WHO) is the public health arm...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 12, 2020 | COVID-19
Meet my little friend Bella, who is 10. Her Mom is a hard-working wound care nurse and with the challenges of COVID-19, it’s been difficult to find time to properly care for Bella’s long locks. Her hair really grew out while all the salons were closed. So, Bella...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 4, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
This morning I did Grand Rounds for the Baylor Department of Geriatrics (via Zoom, of course!), discussing a new paradigm for pressure ulcer formation. I’ve blogged about this before, and published a paper about it. If you would like to think about something OTHER...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Saying “No” to Immunity COVID-19 is a pandemic because no one in any country was immune to the novel virus which, it turns out, is highly infectious and occasionally deadly. We are not sure whether individuals who recover from COVID-19 infections will be immune to a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Check out this interview with our popular guest blogger, Dr. Marissa Carter, about the impact COVID-19 has had on research ethics. Here is the link to the excellent article on research ethics, written by my friend Deborah Borfitz and published in Clinical Research...
