Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 339
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 339 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
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Robert Reynolds Macintosh
Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh (1897-1989) New Zealand Anaesthetist. Inventor of Macintosh Laryngoscope; gum elastic bougie; Illuminated introducer; RFD 5580 life-jacket...
Brian Sellick
Brian Arthur Sellick (1918 – 1996) British anaesthetist. Best known for his description of the Sellick manoeuvre and hypothermia in cardiac surgery
Mindfulness: Waiting to Arise
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 9: Waiting to Arise. Mindfulness is not just about you
Claude Beck
Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894-1971) was an American Cardiac Surgeon. Described two cardiac compression triads (1935); first successful use of a defibrillator on a human (1947)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 338
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 338 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Mindfulness: Signal to Noise
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 8: Signal to Noise. Mindfulness reawakens a dim memory that we can affect the present
Joseph Guichard Duverney
Joseph Guichard Duverney (1648-1730) French Anatomist and otologist. Eponym: Duverney fracture of the pelvis. Described cholesteotoma and osteoporosis
Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004) was an English electrical engineer, Invention of computed tomography and Hounsfield Units (HU)
Mindfulness: imagination
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 7: imagination; the transition into meditation; and the meditation industry
Sydney Ringer
Sydney Ringer (1835-1910) British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist. Ringer's 'discovery' of his solution (Ringer's solution) arose after his lab assistant mistakenly substituted tap water from the New River Water Co. for distilled water whilst experimenting on a frogs heart.
Alexis Hartmann
Alexis Frank Hartmann (1898-1964) American pediatrician and clinical biochemist. Developed Lactated Ringer’s solution (Hartmann’s Solution)