by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2020 | COVID-19
A mysterious condition is being identified in children related to infection with COVID-19. Children seemed to have been spared the worst of COVID-19 – but now we have another previously unknown complication of a viral infection. Houston’s two major pediatric hospitals...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 29, 2020 | Do the Right Thing: Thoughts on Quality, Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, US Wound Registry
I recently reviewed the case of an elderly woman with a non-healing wound who had ischemic rest pain and extreme malnutrition, neither of which were addressed by the wound center at which she was treated previously. Not surprisingly she failed to improve with the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Do the Right Thing: Thoughts on Quality, Fight the Good Fight, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
If you are a wound management practitioner, then like me, you’ve continued to care for patients during the pandemic. It wasn’t easy before COVID-19 and it’s even harder now. My clinic is only able to see half the volume (due to the time required for COVID-19...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 21, 2020 | COVID-19
As the co-chair of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders, I am asking for your support for the Alliance. No other organization has done more to help wound care practitioners and organizations. COVID-19 is not going away anytime soon. Help us advocate for wound care....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 20, 2020 | COVID-19
The UHMS is offering a free Webinar this Saturday, reviewing the evidence for HBO2 in the treatment of COVID-19. See details below. — Caroline Evidence Review for HBO2 treatment of COVID-19 Webinar Date: Saturday, June 20 Time: 11am – 5pm ET Cost: Free...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 20, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT
Racing to Find Better Treatments for COVID-19 Pneumonia The COVID-19 pandemic, and the severity with which COVID-19 pneumonia has affected some patients, is spurring many clinical trials. Many (if not most) of these trials are evaluating the effectiveness of drugs...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 18, 2020 | COVID-19
In Houston, COVID-19 testing for the homeless and those in shelters has been made possible, thanks in large part to a group of engineers at Oceaneering who came together to design, build and donate a portable COVID-19 testing booth to the non-profit organization...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 15, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
Recently our COVID-Diaries blogger talked about trying to ventilate lungs of “concrete” (see her blog here: https://carolinefifemd.com/2020/05/13/covid-19-diaries-battle-fatigue/). Here’s the visual for the Concrete Lung of COVID-19. It’s no wonder that these patients...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 13, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
The COVID-19 Diaries return, as we see how our guest blogger has truly been forever changed by the experience. –Caroline The Battle of the Mind The past two weeks I have been on the pulmonary consult service. I went right into weekend call and the next week back...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
On March 1st, my friend and colleague, Marissa Carter, PhD emailed me a graph of her COVID-19 infection rate model. After seeing it, I put my mother in quarantine the following week. Her model turned out to be far more accurate than the Harvard model (or other models)...
