by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 25, 2022 | Fight the Good Fight
Dr. David Charash is a longtime friend and colleague in the field of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He’s passionate about Diving Medicine and is producing a series of podcasts on Fitness In Diving. It’s the first ever podcast on the topic and will feature...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
This interview with one of my patients was filmed one day before my hospital closed to visitors at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The story is so incredible I wanted the patient to tell it herself so I was thrilled when, a few days ago, the Microgen team sent me...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 16, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
This past Saturday morning (August 14th), a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit southern Haiti. To make matters worse, a tropical storm is headed that way which will complicate search and rescue. If you are moved to donate money in the face of these tragedies, I’d like to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 4, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
Check out this article by Efthymios Gkotsoulias, David Kuten and me, published in the April issue of Today’s Wound Clinic entitled, “Multidisciplinary Teams, All the Time: Treat the Patient and Not the Wound.” The patient had a limb-threatening lesion, and his leg was...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
I can’t decide if I am seeing more truly starving patients since I started focusing on nutrition, or if I’m just more sensitive to it. All 3 of these patients have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 17. The first patient completely healed a stage 4 pressure ulcer...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 26, 2021 | Don't Miss This
This is a 37 yo man with a non-healing wound at the site of a left chest catheter port. He has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and the port for his chemotherapy was removed 4 weeks after it was put in because it looked infected. He has had an extensive region of erythema and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 21, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
We see a lot of sad situations in the field of wound care, but every now and then, a case really gets to you. This patient is a 47 yo man with a sacral pressure ulcer which had developed 2 months earlier when he was hospitalized for pneumonia. He suffers from a rare,...
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 10, 2021 | PAD Hall of Shame
I am humming that song from the ‘80’s, “Just another manic Monday…” Another patient in profound heart failure with shortness of breath that prevents her from lying supine, who’s got edema from the abdomen down. Fluid is coming right through her skin (see the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 10, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
This is a poster I presented at a wound care conference two years ago. It’s not earth shattering, it’s just interesting. The patient is a woman in her late 80’s with advanced dementia who was being taken care of lovingly at home by her two daughters. She developed a...
