Biography Born 3 July 1921 Brookfield, Missouri BS, University of Missouri MD, Louisiana State University Internship Kansas City General Hospital Clinical Associate Professor, University of Missouri School of Medicine 1964 – vice president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Chairman,…
Walter Putnam Blount (1900 – 1992) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponym: Erlacher-Blount syndrome; Blount staple. Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery.
Biography Born 1966 Banyoles 1990 – Medical degree, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1995 – Emory University, Atlanta 2000 – Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Brugada J, Brugada P, Brugada…
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart des Marets (1755 - 1821) was a French physician.
Find out when to give the diphtheria vaccine in the immunisation schedule and when to give the antitoxin via our A-Z tropical vaccine library.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Risk in Emergency medicine - what is it, how to doctors assess it and how they make decisions? How can we make things better? Some answers, more questions.
Biography Born 1928 Pueblo, Colorado MD, Yale University 1950 – President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists 1959-1961 Johns Hopkins departments of anesthesiology and OB/GYN 1961 – University of Kansas School of Medicine 1973 – Ophthalmic anesthesia Wichita, Kansas Founder…
Joe Lex, at SMACC of course, speaks about being 'An Old Dog Learning New Tricks' in emergency medicine.
Biography Medical Eponyms A dental splint destined to control the Stent* is fitted to any existing teeth or to the alveolar ridge (see figs. 1 and 2), and the sulcus is deepened per oram to the satisfaction of the dental…
William Harvey (1578 - 1657) was an English physician
Biography Born 11 August 1952 Professor of cardiology and physiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel–Vrije Universiteit Brussel 2012 – gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Brugada P, Brugada J.…