by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 3, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Best Publishing has kindly granted me permission to reproduce an article on Vascular Screening which I wrote for that magazine in 2010. I briefly discuss the difference between Transcutaneous oximetry (TcPO2) and skin perfusion pressure (SPP). There are many scholarly...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
Watch the plenary sessions in this year’s UHMS virtual Annual Scientific Meeting June 10-12 Click here to register today! Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven care. Please...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 26, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
Speaker: Helen Gelly, MD, FUHM, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM HyperbaRXs Marietta, GA Moderator: Tyler Sexton, MD, DMT, CHWS, MAPWCA Please see the Zoom info below! ACHM is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: ACHM Webinar: Regulatory Updates in Hyperbaric Medicine...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 24, 2021 | Don't Miss This, Fight the Good Fight
A 44 year old woman presented with left arm and right lower leg ulcers that had been present for over 3 years. She has been seen by many specialists and treated with multiple courses of oral antibiotics, oral steroids, topical steroids, and advanced dressings. She...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 20, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
I’ve posted a series of videos that show the rate at which lymphatic fluid will drip out of even very small wounds. Watch closely and you can see the fluid pooling in these wounds and then, in many cases, dripping down. I have a LOT of these videos! This is lymphatic...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 14, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Check out my article on the Ethics of Off-Label Use of HBOT on the Hyperbaric Aware campaign site! There are many fantastic blogs by folks you likely know. –Caroline Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 13, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
This is a 70-year-old man with a dehisced flap on the plantar surface of the left foot after a melanoma excision 6 weeks earlier. Based on the photos that he showed me from his phone, the cancer surgeon struggled to close the large defect on the bottom of his foot...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
This is a 57-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis and a non-healing ulcer of the leg for a year, likely due to vasculitis. Traumatizing vasculitic ulcers with sharp debridement often makes them larger (besides being horribly painful) – so it’s generally a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 11, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Nutrition & Wound Healing
This is a man in his mid-eighties with severe peripheral edema and a nasty looking leg ulcer that’s been present for about 2 months. His edema began 2 years ago, some weeks after his wife died. It turns out that he’s lost at least 20 lbs. over the past year. When I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 10, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers
Check out this podcast interview with Drs. Tracey Yap and Jenny Alderden discussing their recent research on the frequency of repositioning for nursing home patients and the relationship of pressure injuries (PI) to angiosomes. Here’s a link to the related article in...
