Eponym

Portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update September 26, 2019

In 1789 Savigny published a description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead, notable for it’s catchy title and for the amazing prehospital resuscitation equipment replete with an ETT, NGT, OGT, bag…and rectal desufflator

José Manuel Rivero-Carvallo

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update November 4, 2019

José Manuel Rivero-Carvallo (1905-1993) Mexican cardiologist. Rivero Carvallo sign (1946), enhanced murmur of tricuspid regurgitation on inspiration

Brian Arthur Sellick

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update September 26, 2019

Brian Arthur Sellick (1918 – 1996) British anaesthetist. Best known for his description of the Sellick manoeuvre and hypothermia in cardiac surgery

Aortic Regurgitation Eponymythology

by Dr Gary Zhang and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update September 6, 2019

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

Jean-Baptiste Hippolyte Dance

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update December 1, 2019

Biography Born 21 February 1797 Saint-Pal-de Chalencon, France Died of cholera on 18 April 1832 inParis Medical Eponyms Dance Sign (1826) sausage-like mass in the right upper quadrant with absence of bowel (or emptiness) in the right lower quadrant. The sign combines a visible depression/emptiness within the right iliac fossa and enlargement/fullness on the left […]