Archie Brain
Archie Ian Jeremy Brain (1942 – ) British anaesthetist. Best known as the inventor of the laryngeal mask (LMA™)
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John Barton
John Rhea Barton (1794-1871) was an American Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym: Barton fracture (1838). Intra-articular distal radius fracture.
Arthur Ernest Guedel
Arthur Ernest Guedel (1883 – 1956) was an American anesthesiologist. Guedel Oropharyngeal airway and classification system
José Luis Bado
José Luis Bado (1903 – 1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Bado classification of Monteggia fractures.
T. Philip Ayre
Thomas Philip Ayre (1901-1979) was an English anaesthetist. Ayre is most well-known for his eponymous T-piece, a device which revolutionised anaesthesia for babies and children.
Heinrich Quincke
Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842 - 1922) was a German physician. Quincke's name is eponymous with Quincke's pulse (1868), Quiuncke's oedema (1882), Quincke's achorion (1886), and Quincke's puncture (1891).
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Montéggia (1762-1815) was an Italian surgeon. Eponym: Monteggia fracture (1812) ulna fracture, radial head dislocation
Harold Arthur Hill
Harold Arthur Hill (1901-1973) was an American radiologist who worked with Maurice David Sachs (1909-1987). Eponym: Hill-Sachs lesion (1940)
Mary Holt
Mary Clayton Holt (1924 - 1993) was an English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960)
William Ganz
William Ganz (1919 – 2009) Slovakian-born American cardiologist. Co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter with Jeremy Swan at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 1970
Jeremy Swan
Harold James Charles 'Jeremy' Swan (1922 – 2005) was an was an Irish cardiologist. Co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter with William Ganz in 1970
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (1895 - 1973) Nobel Laureate and celebrated American Physician. Famously known for his work in development of cardiac catherisation and physiology with André Frédéric Cournand and Werner Theodore Otto Forßman.