Battlefield Surgery
MSF goes where no one else will go, but doing this kind of good is not getting any easier. John Swinnen on The Future of Battlefield Surgery.
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Alban Köhler
Alban Köhler (1874 – 1947) was a German Radiologist. Associated with Köhler-Pelligrini-Stieda disease; Köhler disease and Freiberg Infraction
Erector Spinae Plane Block
The Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESPB) is a technically simple and safe form of regional anaesthesia that can provide effective analgesia for 12 hours in patients with acute posterior rib fractures
Adult CXR Cases 018
August 2021 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Daniel Escobar, MD and Breeanna Lorenzen MD
Branham sign
Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign: Compression of the arterial supply to an arteriovenous fistula causes bradycardia and hypertension
Serratus Anterior Plane Block
The SAPB is a technically simple and safe form of regional anaesthesia that provides effective analgesia in patients with acute anterolateral rib fractures
Harris Branham
Harris Miller Branham (1862 – 1936) was an American physician. Branham sign (1890) - bradycardia following occlusion the artery entering an arteriovenous fistula
Bezold–Jarisch reflex
Clinically, the Bezold-Jarisch reflex is an inhibitory reflex usually denoted as a cardioinhibitory reflex defined as bradycardia, vasodilation, and hypotension resulting from stimulation of cardiac receptors.
George Fell
George Edward Fell (1849 – 1918); American surgeon and engineer. Innovator of Forced respiration (IPPV), Fell laryngeal tube, the electric chair and Fell apparatus
Rudolph Matas
Rudolph Matas (1860 – 1957) was an American vascular surgeon; prominent figure and pioneer to the fields of both surgery and anaesthesia.
Joseph O’Dwyer
Joseph O'Dwyer (1841 – 1898) was an American physician. Father of laryngeal intubation in croup; O'Dwyer plain tube; system for intralaryngeal intubation; Fell-O’Dwyer apparatus
John H. Blease
John Henry Blease (1906 - 1985) British inventor and anaesthetic technician. Blease-Manley ventilator; the Alfo-Blease anaesthetic machine