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Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

In 2011, we published a paper entitled, “Why is it hard to do the right thing in wound care?” in which we documented that only 17% of venous ulcers were treated with adequate compression every time they were seen at a wound center. Those statistics were...

Peripheral Arterial Hall of Shame – Case #4

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 10, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

This is another installment of the Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame. You may be getting tired of these cases, but since I see at least one a month, I think I will just keep adding to the Hall of Shame. This woman is in her late 80’s and has moderate dementia....

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame – Case #3

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 3, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

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 and her...

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame – Case #2

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 26, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Here is another installment in my “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame.” This is an alert woman in her 90’s who still lives alone. She has had a circumferential leg ulcer for 4 years and chronic pain. She has been to a series of physicians and...

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame – Case #1

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 19, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

I have decided to start a series called the “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame.” Maybe if we keep talking about these cases we can change the way these patients are treated so they are diagnosed before it is too late. This is a 60ish year old man...

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