Dr Mike Cadogan

About Dr Mike Cadogan

Emergency physician | medical informatics | medical education/textbooks. Asynchronous learning #FOAMed evangelist. | @sandnsurf | LinkedIn

Aortic Regurgitation Eponymythology

by Dr Gary Zhang and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 21, 2019

Chronological review of the eponyms of aortic regurgitation / insufficiency based on the 31 signs proposed by Ashrafian (2005) and Zacek (2018)

Lincoln sign

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 21, 2019

Lincoln sign refers to forceful popliteal artery pulsation secondary to aortic regurgitation; exaggerated when the patient sits with legs crossed; and deemed positive if the elevated foot bobs up and down with each systolic contraction.

The Blood And Guts Shift

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 8, 2019

24 hours in the Liverpool Royal Southern Hospital casualty department, blood and guts shift in 1975. Although the times, people and process have changed – some things stay the same.

LITFL and the Hackocalypse

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update July 9, 2019

It has been 341 days since the original site lifeinthefastlane was hacked and white space Trojan code filled our server with deleterious effect. To date we have re-written, reviewed and transferred over 5000 pages/posts; and 1million words to our new home at LITFL.com and have so far managed to evade the contagion thanks to our […]

Georges Charles Guillain

by Dr Jeremy Rogers and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update July 22, 2019

Georges Charles Guillain (1876 – 1961) was a French neurologist. Associated with multiple neurology-related eponyms including Guillain-Barré syndrome

Oslerus osleri

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update June 27, 2019

Sir William Osler was a man of not inconsiderable talent. A pathologist and clinician. A professor successively at McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University. Historian and bibliographer of medicine. A naturalist, microscopist, proponent of comparative physiology…and a veterinarian The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers […]