Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004) was an English electrical engineer, Invention of computed tomography and Hounsfield Units (HU)
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Mindfulness: imagination
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 7: imagination; the transition into meditation; and the meditation industry
Sydney Ringer
Sydney Ringer (1835-1910) British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist. Ringer's 'discovery' of his solution (Ringer's solution) arose after his lab assistant mistakenly substituted tap water from the New River Water Co. for distilled water whilst experimenting on a frogs heart.
Alexis Hartmann
Alexis Frank Hartmann (1898-1964) American pediatrician and clinical biochemist. Developed Lactated Ringer’s solution (Hartmann’s Solution)
Mindfulness: tools for transitions
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 6: defining the terms and choosing the right tools for the job
Network Five: Women in medicine
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 4 - women in medicine from gender-based differences with respect to morbidity and mortality to roles in leadership
Network Five: ECMO
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 4 - ECMO: Review of DOSE VF, setting up an ECMO service, and D-dimer
Carl-Gunnar Engström
Carl Gunnar Engström (1912 – 1987) was a Swedish physician and engineer; inventor of the Engström universal respirator a positive pressure mechanical ventilator
Mindfulness: down the rabbit hole
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 5 - decision time - take the red pill, and down the rabbit hole
Ferdinand Sauerbruch
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) was a German thoracic surgeon. Eponyms: Sauerbruch chamber, Sauerbruch hand, Sauerbruch grip to name a few...
Network Five: POCUS
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 3 - POCUS: COACHRED, pulmonary embolism and long bone probing
Guillaume Dupuytren
Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously associated with Dupuytren's contracture (disease)