Robert Marcus Gunn
Robert Marcus Gunn (1850-1909) was a Scottish Ophthalmologist. Marcus Gunn pupillary phenomenon (1902), aka relative afferent pupillary defect or RAPD
Month December 2018
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
Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Young–Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory of Colour Vision Helmholtz expanded on the earlier hypothesis of Thomas Young (1773–1829), who proposed that human colour vision relied on three types of retinal receptors. In the mid-1850s, Helmholtz refined this into…
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
Ultrasound Case 034
A 22 year old man is brought in by ambulance after a rugby injury - he was sandwiched between two players. He is complaining of left lower anterolateral chest pain worse with inspiration.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 091
Here's the 91st feast of five funtabulous frivilosities featuring the children of today, the barber's pole, a zebra retreat, Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and Dr Doolittle, and the taste of semen.
Maybe clothing technology hasn’t gotten better
Early in the 20th century, explorers were busy trying to reach the poles and climbing mountains, simply because they were there. The casual observer from modern times must wonder how they were able to tolerate such cold temperatures without the…
CCC Update 004
CCC Update 004 features glucose control, echo for AS, sugammadex, post-arrest prognosis, SDD, physiotherapy, pandemic, bicarb and DKA, and HSV encephalitis
Ultrasound Case 033
A 49 year old woman falls off her bike, she is stable and has an abrasion along her right flank. You can feel a mass in the RUQ and perform an EFAST scan.