Biography Born 1781 1799 – Commenced medical school under tutelage of Dr. John Heaviside (1748–1828). Practised ‘Museum Medicine’ honing dissection skills to define anatomical sites of disease 1805 – Assistant surgeon at St. George’s infirmary and lecturer at the school…
ARDSnet Ventilation Strategy: Note that the definitions below have recently been revised - however they are included here as they were used in the ARDSNet trial.
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Biography Born 26 October 1654 Died 20 January 1720 Medical Eponyms Sign Key Medical Attributions Commotio cordis (1707) Sic olim vidimus, inflicto vehementer pugno sub cartilagine mucronata, vitae nodum ex tempore solutum; nimirum quod eo loci una conuenivnt, valideque per…
Let it never be said that we resist change. We, the consultants in my ED, have been reinvented. We are now EPIC (...the Imperious).
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (1854 - 1900) Серге́й Серге́евич Ко́рсаков was a Russian psychiatrist.
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1849 – Swedish physician Magnus Huss published a series of case descriptions under the title Alcoholismus chronicus. Huss tried to show that various types of symptoms could be distinguished: neural symptoms, in particular sensory-motor…
Noonan’s syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic condition with mutations affecting the RAS signaling pathway. Jacqueline Anne Noonan (1921 - )
Palla sign (1983) right descending pulmonary artery enlargement and 'sausage-shaped' appearance as a potential sign of pulmonary embolism on chest XR
Dealing with high emotion in critical care causes us to react. This talk provides simple tools to manage those reactions.
The Hampton hump is a well-defined pulmonary pleural based opacity representing hemorrhage and necrotic lung tissue in a region of pulmonary infarction caused by acute pulmonary embolism.
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1952 – Margaret Dix and Charles Hallpike published a landmark paper in neuro-otology, looking at the three most common peripheral vertigo diseases: Meniere’s disease, vestibular neuritis and benign paroxysmal positional nystagmus.…