Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Month December 2018
Marcus Gunn Pupil
A pupil that responds by constricting more to an indirect than to a direct light, seen with unilateral optic nerve or retinal disease
Robert Marcus Gunn
Robert Marcus Gunn (1850-1909) was a Scottish Ophthalmologist. Marcus Gunn pupillary phenomenon (1902), aka relative afferent pupillary defect or RAPD
Medical education challenge
Medical education both undergraduate and postgraduate mostly takes place in small group settings with less than 20 learners
How you wash your utensils matters
When you’re out in the wild for extended periods of time, you’re always reminded of the need to eat. Some get around this by only carrying prepared foods. Others decide to cook, which inevitably leads to dirty dishes. Even if…
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894) was a German physician and physicist. Helmholtz was a pioneer in the scientific study of human vision and hearing. He revolutionized the field of ophthalmology with the invention of the ophthalmoscope in…
Adie syndrome
Holmes-Adie syndrome (aka Adie syndrome) affects the autonomic nervous system. Patients present with the pupil of one eye being larger and only slowly constricts in bright light (tonic pupil). There is also absence of deep tendon reflexes, usually the Achilles tendon.
Gordon Holmes
Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965) was an Irish neurologist. Eponymously remembered for Bálint-Holmes syndrome (1918); Stewart-Holmes manoeuvre; Gordon-Holmes syndrome and Holmes-Adie syndrome (1931)
CCC Update 005
IT is time to recap what is new in the LITFL Critical Care Compendium: ventriculitis, starvation response, iron overdose, oxygen, validity of clinical research and surrogate outcomes.
Rivaroxaban and bleeding
an orally active direct Factor Xa inhibitor (a n example of a NOACs or “New Oral Anticoagulants”)
Kinnier Wilson
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878 – 1937) was an American-born British neurologist. Following his extensive work on hepatolenticular degeneration this condition is eponymously termed Wilson disease
Bernard Kayser
Biography Born 6 August 1869 Bremen, Germany Died 11 May 1954, Stuttgart, Germany Key Medical Attributions Medical Eponyms Kayser-Fleischer Ring (1902, 1903) Controversies Major Publications Kayser B. Ueber einen Fall von angeborener grünlicher Verfärbung der Cornea. Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde. 1902;40(2):22-25…