Joffroy sign
Joffroy sign (1893): absent wrinkling of the forehead when a patient in patients Graves Ophthalmopathy looks up with the head bent forwards.
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David A. Rytand
David Abramson Rytland (1909 - 1991) was an American physician and cardiologist. Rytand murmur (1946), Rytand's law (1951)
Rytand murmur
Rytand murmur: Mid-late blowing diastolic murmur heard occasionally in patients with complete atrioventricular heart block.
CXR Case 155
A 26 year old IV drug user presents with fever and back pain. LITFL Top 150 CXR
Adult CXR Cases 005
March 2020 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Alyssa Thomas, MD and Claire Milam, MD
Visual Abstracts for COVID-19 #CoVisuals
#CoVisuals are educational visual abstracts created by Dr. Chelsea Harris, MD, MS a General Surgery Resident at the University of Maryland.
CXR Case 154
A 43 yo male presents with a syncopal episode, normal labs and ECG. A CXR is performed. LITFL Top 150 CXR
Alfred Lewis Galabin
Alfred Lewis Galabin (1843-1913) English obstetric physician. Using an apexcardiogram he was documented atrioventricular (AV) block in humans.
Shared ventilation: how to do it if you have to
Dr Simran Kaur Matta explains how to "split" a ventilator so that you can provide shared ventilation to multiple patients if you have to.
A Practical Approach to Running a Scarce Resource Allocation Team (SRAT)
Practical guidance on how Scarce Resource Allocation Teams (SRATs) should conduct themselves if hospital resources are overwhelmed.
Should we put multiple COVID-19 patients on a single ventilator?
Prof Jack Iwashyna on the highly limited role of single ventilator / multiple patient workarounds in the COVID-19 epidemic.
CXR Case 153
A 63 yo lady presents with dyspnoea on a background of metastatic breast cancer. LITFL Top 150 CXR