by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Miscellaneous Musings
A much-admired colleague told me a shocking story this morning which demonstrates why she is so admired. I hope she will share the story in her own words later, but I want to talk about it now. Walking down the hall of her medical office building, she saw a patient...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 9, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Healthcare Payment Policy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has been used for many decades to treat a variety of maladies which have as their common denominator low tissue oxygen levels (hypoxia). Thanks to the pioneering work of Steve Thom and others, HBOT has also been proven to mitigate the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 8, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight
My good friend Frank Aviles, PT is one of the most creative and innovative people I have ever known. He is the Wound Care Service Line Director at Natchitoches Regional Medical Center in Louisiana, serves on the editorial board for Today’s Wound Clinic and is a well...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 7, 2020 | Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
Do you remember how you felt the first time you saw this? Do you still have the photos of the first patient you treated with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)? The photos below are very poor quality because they are Polaroids from 1997! This was one of the first...
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...
