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Blood filter

Blood filter: removal of microaggregates during blood transfusion; platelet, leucocyte and fibrin aggregates form in stored blood and are thought to produce pulmonary microembolism -> pulmonary dysfunction

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Blood Culture Bottles

Blood Culture Bottles: tubes for sampling blood for microbiological cultures; detection of circulating microorganisms in bacteraemia and septicaemia

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Bite block

Bite block: Prevent damage a patient from biting down when placing an device in or through the oral cavity, or during an intraoral procedure

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Oxylator

Oxylator: a device that acts as a combination between a bag-valve mask and a portable ventilator; primarily for prehospital use

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René Leriche

Henri Marie René Leriche (1879–1955) French surgeon. Described as the father of vascular surgery. Leriche syndrome (1940), Leriche operation (1913)

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Woldemar Mobitz

Woldemar Mobitz (1889-1951) was a Russian-German physician. Applied mathematical approach to arrhythmias 1924 Mobitz Type I and II AV Block

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Saint’s Triad

Saint’s Triad is the association of hiatal hernia, gallbladder disease, and diverticulosis in patients with atypical abdominal symptoms. Termed by British surgeon Professor Charles Frederick Morris Saint