Category LITFL
Emergency Procedures 680

MacGyver the Foley

Foley balloon tamponade can temporarily control catastrophic neck, axillary and groin bleeding, buying time for imaging and definitive care in trauma.

George Philo Pitkin (1885-1943) 680

George Pitkin

George Philo Pitkin (1885-1943), American surgeon. Inventor of Spinocain, Pitkin spinal needle, syringe and tiltometer for controllable spinal anaesthesia.