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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Raymond de Vieussens (*1641 - 1715) was a French anatomist. He is renowned for his pioneering work on cardiac and nervous system anatomy.
Duroziez-type murmur observed with the patients arm subjected to various temperatures of water and by applying a subdiastolic pressure below the auscultation site, to help differentiate between aortic insufficiency and peripheral vasodilatation.
The ACEM fellowship focuses on ARC guidelines for defibrillation. See this post for the current standards of practise and controversies.
The most recent BLS 2015 guidelines (ILCOR 2015) retain many of the 2010 recommendations, again reinforcing the chain of survival. However, there is an increased emphasis on simplification of compression method, good quality bystander CPR and encouragement thereof, dispatcher guided…
Arthur Carlton Ernstene (1901-1971) was an American cardiologist. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Herrman Ludwig Blumgart (1895-1977) was an American physician, cardiologist and pioneer of diagnostic nuclear medicine. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Patients are often a source of inspiration and hope. One such stand out individual is Nathan Charles.
The world of urticarial pathophysiology and dermal manifestations of allergy and urticaria has always fascinated me – although I have found that clinically defining some of the finer sub-divisions allergic and non-allergic urticarias can be a little taxing (see causes mnemonic FIT…
Ludwig Traube (1818 - 1876) was a German physician. Traube space; Traube pulse (pulsus bigeminus); Traube sign; and Doppelton
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1873 – Tilbury Fox (1836-1879) first to describe what is now generally designated as erysipeloid. In 1873 Fox briefly described two instances of an eruption clinically conforming with that disease. 1873…