by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 29, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Wounds are a symptom of disease, and usually the first disease we have to rule out in patients with lower extremity wounds is poor perfusion. Arterial disease is the most common reason, but not the only one. I rely on skin perfusion pressure (SPP) to determine whether...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 28, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Wounds are a symptom of disease, and usually the first disease we have to rule out in patients with lower extremity wounds is poor perfusion. Arterial disease is the most common reason, but not the only one. I rely on skin perfusion pressure (SPP) to determine whether...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 27, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Wounds are a symptom of disease, and usually the first disease we have to rule out in patients with lower extremity wounds is poor perfusion. Arterial disease is the most common reason, but not the only one. I rely on skin perfusion pressure (SPP) to determine whether...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 26, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Wounds are a symptom of disease, and usually the first disease we have to rule out in patients with lower extremity wounds is poor perfusion. Arterial disease is the most common reason, but not the only one. I rely on skin perfusion pressure (SPP) to determine whether...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 23, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Wounds are a symptom of disease, and usually the first disease we have to rule out in patients with lower extremity wounds is poor perfusion. Arterial disease is the most common reason, but not the only one. I rely on skin perfusion pressure (SPP) to determine whether...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 22, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Wounds are a symptom of disease and usually the first disease we have to rule out in patients with lower extremity wounds is poor perfusion. Arterial disease is the most common reason but not the only one. I rely on skin perfusion pressure (SPP) to determine whether...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 21, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, PAD Hall of Shame
I cannot do wound care without skin perfusion pressure. My machine is broken. If I don’t have one, I can’t do what I do. The hospital says that because the other wound centers use ABI that I should, too. But I see the problems they can’t fix. There is a lot of other...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 20, 2021 | COVID-19, Fight the Good Fight
In 1996, Sackett and colleagues published, “Evidence-Based Medicine: What it Is and What it Isn’t.” The incessant drum beat of the “hierarchy of evidence” has caused physicians to forget that the aim of EBM is to, “integrate the experience of the clinician, the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 20, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema
Yesterday I posted an article about a new study just published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders, which shows that the degradation of lymphatic anatomy happens early in venous disease and worsens as venous disease worsens. Check out...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Lymphatic Imaging & Lymphedema
A new study just published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (Vol. 9, Issue 3, May 2021) shows that the degradation of lymphatic anatomy happens early in venous disease and worsens as venous disease worsens. Near-infrared fluorescence...
