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Galeazzi Test

The Galeazzi test, sometimes called Allis sign or Skyline test, is used to assess for hip dislocation, specifically testing for developmental dysplasia of the hip.

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Own the Oxygen!

Keeping your patient oxygenated during rapid sequence intubation has never been easier - with Own the Oxygen

Unusual Urine Clinical Cases

Tyrian rage

Purple Urine: Usually alkaline urine with degradation of indoxyl sulfate (indican), dietary tryptophan metabolite, into indigo (blue) and indirubin (red)

Unusual Urine Clinical Cases

Mahogany Myoglobinuria

A 72 year old female is admitted following an emergency abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Explain the biochemical results and brown urine

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Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis

The eponym 'Wegener Granulomatosis' has been replaced with the term 'Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)'. This transition was in part to achieve nomenclature symmetry with Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA) and Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA, Churg-Strauss); and to remove any historical association with Friedrich Wegener following revelations of his association with the Nazi Party in World War II

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Hans Reiter

Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881-1969) was a German physician and social hygienist. Associated with Reiter Syndrome - known now as Reactive arthritis