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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, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)

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...

What is it Woundsday?

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 5, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

This is the axillae of a woman who had breast cancer a year ago and underwent radiation to the axillae after a lymph node biopsy. She developed a seroma which was drained and then became infected. She has a large wound about the size of an orange that you can’t see...
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