by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 23, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitute Arrests, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Last week I gave a talk at the Amputation Prevention Symposium entitled, “Elevate the CLI Patient’s Voice: Why it is so Important to do the Right Thing?” I have to confess that when the meeting organizers first asked me to explain why it’s important to do the...
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. | 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. | 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 3, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
This is another installment in my “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame” The photo is a 50ish woman with diabetes and a history of smoking. A right femoral popliteal bypass was performed 3 months earlier. Unfortunately she developed a graft infection...
