LITFL Update 046
Update 046. Sending you FOAMed content from around the globe. Latest trends and best articles so that you stay top of your field.
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José Luis Bado
José Luis Bado (1903 – 1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Bado classification of Monteggia fractures.
Riccardo Galeazzi
Riccardo Galeazzi (1866-1952) was a pioneering Italian orthopaedic surgeon. The eponymous Galeazzi fracture is named after him.
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Montéggia (1762-1815) was an Italian surgeon. Eponym: Monteggia fracture (1812) ulna fracture, radial head dislocation
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) revolutionized medicine with the discovery of blood groups and the Rh factor, laying the foundation for modern transfusion and immunology.
Galeazzi fracture
Galeazzi fracture (1934). Fracture of the distal third of the radius with associated Distal radio-ulna joint (DRUJ) disruption.
William Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) was an English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Bragg's Law, Bragg Spectrometer and Bragg-Paul Pulsator
Network Five: Emergency Medicine Conversations
Network Five Emergency Medicine Conversations Episode 30 with Dr Setthy Ung - an inspiring discussion about developing paediatric emergency care, systems change and balance!
LITFL Update 045
Update 045. Sending you FOAMed content from around the globe. Latest trends and best articles so that you stay top of your field.
Thomas sign
Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.
Barrett’s oesophagus
Barrett’s oesophagus: reflux-driven columnar metaplasia of the distal oesophagus and precursor to adenocarcinoma—history, key figures, diagnosis, management
Implantable Device Imaging 004
May 2024 Implantable device imaging and interpretation. Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts with Friedman, Patterson and Miller