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).
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.
The Dix-Hallpike manoeuvre is the gold standard test for the diagnosis of posterior semicircular canal BPPV, first described by Dix and Hallpike in 1952
Chang sign (1965) Dilated descending pulmonary artery associated with pulmonary infarction and pulmonary hypertension following pulmonary embolism
Biography Born 27 April 1862 in Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany Died 20 May 1916 Medical Eponyms Kehr sign Key Medical Attributions Major Publications Kehr H. Die chirurgische Behandlung der Gallensteinkrankheit; ein Rückblick auf 206 Gallenstein-Laparotomieen unter besonderem Hinweis auf die Nothwendigkeit…