Procedure: Nail bed repair
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: nail bed repair - a deceptively simple injury that can lead to permanent nail deformity if managed incorrectly
Category LITFL
Józef Dietl
Józef Dietl (1804–1878) was a Polish physician, politician, professor and rector. Eponym: Dietl's crisis ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO)
Procedure: Nail bed repair
Emergency Procedure: nail bed lacerations - a deceptively simple injury that can lead to permanent nail deformity if not managed carefully
Leonardo Gigli
Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908) was an Italian surgeon and gynaecologist. Inventor of the Gigli saw for lateralised pubiotomy
Procedure: Serratus Anterior Block
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: Serratus Anterior Plane (SAP) Block; a technique most often used for rib fracture pain
Procedure: Serratus Anterior Block
Emergency Procedure: Serratus Anterior Plane (SAP) Block; a technique most often used for rib fracture pain
Barlow syndrome
Barlow syndrome (primary billowing mitral leaflet syndrome (BMLS)). Auscultatory findings of late systolic murmur with non-ejection ('mid-late') systolic click
John Barlow
John Brereton Barlow (1924-2008) was a South African cardiologist. Barlow described mitral valve prolapse (eponymously known as Barlow’s syndrome) in 1963
Carl Gerhardt
Carl Gerhardt (1833–1902), German internist and paediatric pioneer, described Gerhardt’s sign and advanced diagnostics, paediatrics, and laryngology
Libman-Sacks endocarditis
Libman–Sacks endocarditis is a sterile cardiac valve lesion linked to lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome, often detected via echocardiography
Emanuel Libman
Emanuel Libman (1872–1946), American internist who co-described Libman-Sacks endocarditis and revolutionised diagnostic medicine at Mount Sinai.
Benjamin Sacks
Benjamin Sacks (1896–1971), cardiac pathologist and co-describer of Libman–Sacks endocarditis, also a Hollywood advisor and Arizona frontier historian.