by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Fight the Good Fight
The theme of the August issue of Today’s Wound Clinic is “Multidisciplinary Care.” I decided to interview my amazing staff (pictured holding the hospital award for the clinic coming back the strongest since the pandemic, from left to right: Tara Stone, Debi...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 17, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight
I am still exploring the use of transdermal oxygen for certain types of ischemic ulcers. The foot injury depicted in these photos occurred when a training weight fell on a professional athlete’s foot and avulsed the distal ends of the left great, second and third...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Fight the Good Fight
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders continues its strong (and successful) advocacy helping wound management practitioners care for their patients and help patients access care during the COVID-19 crisis. The Alliance has collated important information and put it...
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. | 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 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 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. | 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. | Apr 30, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight, Undaunted Spirit Award
This event started as a project to help Physical Therapy students whose clinical rotations were cancelled but it has taken on a life of its own! I participated in the second one on diabetic foot ulcers. I can’t wait for this one because the keynote speaker is my...
