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...
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...
