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Defending Pressure Ulcer Cases by Understanding How They Really Happen

On Demand
September 9, 2025
46:22 minutes

Deep tissue injuries that evolve into severe pressure ulcers affect millions of people in the United States each year. Unfortunately, many believe they are always preventable with proper skin care and repositioning. Join Dr. Caroline Fife, a world-renowned wound care physician, as she debunks myths, outlines the mechanisms of skin injury, and identifies risk preventive legal strategies.

Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS

Dr. Fife is a world-renowned wound care physician. Since 2013, she has been a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She is the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, LLC, a Texas-based health information technology company, which since 2000 has provided a specialty-specific electronic medical record system to wound and hyperbaric centers across the U.S. Dr. Fife is also the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization with a suite of CMS approved wound-care relevant quality measures to enable practitioners to meet the requirements of Medicare’s Quality Payment Program.