Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 331
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 331 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
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Köhler disease
Köhler disease: rare, self-limiting, avascular necrosis (osteochondrosis) of the navicular bone in children. Described in 1908 by Alban Köhler (1874–1947)
Adult CXR Cases 014
December 2020 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Travis Barlock, MD and Breeanna Lorenzen MD
Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869 – 1939) was an American neurosurgeon.
Freiberg infraction
Freiberg infraction: osteochondrosis of the metatarsal heads (typically the 2nd metatarsal head) described by Albert Freiberg in 1914, Alban Köhler in 1915
BRASH syndrome
BRASH syndrome: Bradycardia, Renal Failure, AV blockade, Shock, and Hyperkalaemia Example case References Blogs and podcasts Farkas J. BRASH syndrome: Bradycardia, Renal failure, Av blocker, Shock, Hyperkalemia. Pulmcrit (Emcrit). 2016 McLaren J. ECG Cases 10 – Hyperkalemia: The Great Imitator.…
Portuguese FOAMed
Portuguese language FOAM "A Medicina no Século XXI?" Free Open Access Meducation (#FOAMed) – Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Menière’s disease
Menière’s disease is a condition characterized by the triad of episodic vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss, caused by endolymphatic hydrops of the labyrinthine system of the inner ear.
Róbert Bárány
Róbert Bárány (1876 - 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. Nobel prize in for his "work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus."
Peter Beighton
Peter Beighton OMB, MD PhD, FRCP . Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Beighton Score (1971)
Helene Ollendorff
Helene Ollendorff Curth (1899 - 1982) was a German-American dermatologist. Curth-Macklin syndrome (1954); Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome (1928)
Dressler beat
Dressler beat: Specifically a 'ventricular fusion beat' in the presence of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia. Wide complex tachycardia with VT