Category LITFL
LITFL Fellowship Finishing School FFS 680

Refeeding Syndrome

Refeeding Syndrome is the term used to describe the adverse metabolic effects and clinical complications when a starved or seriously malnourished individual commences feeding via oral enteral or parenteral routes.

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.