Bell’s palsy
Bell’s palsy: Acute idiopathic unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve. Named after Sir Charles Bell and his description in 1827
Category LITFL
Pancoast Tumour
Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Pancoast Syndrome
Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.
Henry Pancoast
Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him
Procedure: Speculum examination
Emergency Procedure: Speculum examination, how (and when) to find the cervix in the emergency department.
Frederic Cotton
Frederic Jay Cotton (1869–1939) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) and Cotton-Loader position (hyper-flexed wrist with ulna deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)
Precipitous Birth in the ED
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Precipitous delivery in the ED. Let’s face it, the three births you attended as a medical student don't really prepare you for this...
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American neurologist and Civil War doctor, pioneered causalgia, phantom limb, rest cure, and erythromelalgia
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer (1836 – 1910) German Surgical instrument manufacturer. His wife Jeanne Amélie Lüer invented the original Lüer syringe in 1895
William Hammond
William A. Hammond (1828–1900), U.S. Surgeon General and neurology pioneer, described athetosis, reformed military medicine, and authored a key neurology textbook.
Precipitous Birth in the ED
Emergency Procedure: Precipitous Birth in the ED. Let’s face it, the three births you attended as a medical student don't really prepare you for this...
Giovanni Mingazzini
Giovanni Mingazzini (1859-1929) Founder of the Roman School of Neurology; described lenticular hemiparesis, Mingazzini test, and Mingazzini field; pioneer in aphasia and cerebellar anatomy.