Category LITFL

Charles Lund

Charles Carroll Lund (1883-1972) was an American surgeon. Eponymously remembered for the Lund and Browder Chart estimating the total body surface area affected in the management of burns.

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Coudé tip catheter

The coudé catheter has a curved tip and is derived from the French term “coudé” for “elbow.” Described by Louis Auguste Mercier in 1836

Newton Browder

Newton C Browder (1893-1969) was an American physician. Eponymously remembered for the Lund and Browder Chart estimating the total body surface area affected in the management of burns.

Charles Baxter

Charles Rufus Baxter (1929-2005) was an American physician. Baxter made significant advances in the treatment of burn victims and trauma procedures introducing the Parkland formula in 1968.

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Hulûsi Behçet

Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948) was a Turkish dermatologist. Behçet disease (1936) ‘triple symptom complex’ of mouth aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and recurrent iritis

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Behçet Disease

Behçet disease: chronic, multisystemic inflammatory condition involving small and large vessels of unknown aetiology. Characterised by the triad of recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and iridocyclitis with or without hypopyon.