Jean-Nicolas Corvisart
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart des Marets (1755 - 1821) was a French physician.
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Diphtheria Antitoxin
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
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Wrestling with Risk
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.
An Old Dog Learning New Tricks
Joe Lex, at SMACC of course, speaks about being 'An Old Dog Learning New Tricks' in emergency medicine.
Charles Stent
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
William Harvey (1578 - 1657) was an English physician
Pedro Brugada
Biography Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Major Publications References
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Raymond Vieussens
Raymond de Vieussens (*1641 - 1715) was a French anatomist. He is renowned for his pioneering work on cardiac and nervous system anatomy.
Blumgart-Ernstene murmur
Duroziez-type murmur observed with the patients arm subjected to various temperatures of water and by applying a subdiastolic pressure below the auscultation site, to help differentiate between aortic insufficiency and peripheral vasodilatation.
Arthur Carlton Ernstene
Arthur Carlton Ernstene (1901-1971) was an American cardiologist. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)