FOAM Cortex: AI Clinical Search Tool
FOAM Cortex has been launched. A new Free AI-powered clinical search tool built by emergency medicine (EM) physicians specifically for EM and critical care use at the point of care.
Auto-appendicectomy
Auto-appendicectomy: three landmark self-appendectomy cases—Kane (1921), McLaren (1944), Rogozov (1961)—and what they reveal about surgery in extremis.
Fernand Cathelin
Fernand Cathelin (1873–1960), Paris urologist who pioneered caudal epidural anaesthesia (Cathelin’s method) and designed the urine-divider and air cystoscope.
Airway Case 001
Airway Case 001: Active emesis during VL intubation, suction-assisted decontamination (SALAD), bougie troubleshooting, and aspiration
Charles Dotter
Charles T Dotter (1920–1985): father of interventional radiology; coronary imaging pioneer, 1964 angioplasty, catheter thrombolysis, and stents.
Etomidate
Pharmacology of etomidate (Critical Care Compendium). General anaesthetic / induction agent. Carboxylated imidazole derivative
Théodore Tuffier
Théodore Tuffier (1857–1929): Paris surgeon and innovator; thoracic/cardiac pioneer, early open-chest massage, valve experiments, spinal anaesthesia and Tuffier’s line.
MedPod Learn
MedPod Learn turns FOAMed podcasts into trackable learning, with summaries, MCQs and reflections to turn your commute into real CPD. Built by clinicians.
Cope’s Sign
Cardio-biliary reflex (“Cope sign”): gallbladder disease causing vagal bradycardia or AV block that mimics cardiac events, often with normal troponin.
Learn or Blame
Learn or Blame explores cognitive bias, just culture and human factors in adverse event review, showing why healthcare can either learn or blame, not both.
Vincent Cope
Sir Vincent Zachary Cope (1881 – 1974) was a British physician and surgeon. Eponymously linked with Cope Psoas test and obturator test.
Serratus Anterior Plane Block
FOAMed serratus anterior plane block (SAPB) education package for ED rib fractures: evidence-based indications, sonoanatomy, procedure and safety.