Cope’s Sign
Cardio-biliary reflex (“Cope sign”): gallbladder disease causing vagal bradycardia or AV block that mimics cardiac events, often with normal troponin.
Category LITFL
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.
Augustus Desiré Waller
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first human electrocardiogram (ECG) in 1887. His work laid the foundation for modern electrocardiography and inspired Willem Einthoven’s innovations.
History of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): history, pioneers, modern use, efficacy, and controversy, one of psychiatry’s most enduring treatments.
Dominique-Jean Larrey
Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766–1842), Napoleon’s surgeon, pioneered flying ambulances, triage, and humane battlefield care, earning admiration from all sides.
Procedure: Haematoma Block
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: Haematoma block; used in forearm or distal radius fracture requiring reduction
SimCase 002
SimCase 002: older patient with severe hypercapnia and respiratory distress. Explore ventilator setup, escalation, and troubleshooting.
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: no discovery is named after its true originator. Explore its history, Merton’s roots, and modern scientific misattribution.
William Henry Broadbent
Sir William Broadbent (1835–1907), British physician-neurologist; pioneer in hemiplegia theory, neurosyphilis and the pericardial Broadbent sign.
Out-Sleep the Competition: Part 3
Out-Sleep the Competition. The 80/20 Guide to Owning the Night. We work against biology. Against light. Against clock time.