John Haven Emerson
John Haven "Jack" Emerson (1906 – 1997) was an American inventor and humanist. Inventor of the Emerson Iron Lung in 1931, and holder of 35 medical based equipment patents
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 336
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 336 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Mindfulness: the terminology of stress
Mindfulness and the ED Doctor, chapter 2. Examining how our default reaction patterns can be changed with the practice of mindfulness
Mindfulness and the ED Doctor
Mindfulness and the ED Doctor. Why should I need mindfulness, as an ED Clinician? The answer is, of course you don’t – if you see no value in it for you...
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 335
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 335 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Peter Kerley
Sir Peter James Kerley (1900-1979) was an Irish radiologist. Kerley was widely published including describing (but not naming) his eponymous lines firstly in 1933 and then in again his textbook in 1950, and widely about TB diagnosis. Kerley lines A, B and C
Henry Janeway
Henry Harrington Janeway (1873-1921) was an American physician and pioneer for radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer. Janeway Gastrostomy, Janeway Laryngoscope
Karel Rokitansky
Karel (Carl von) Rokitansky (1804-1878) was a Czech pathologist. Eponymous terms include Rokitansky disease; Rokitansky syndrome; Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses; and Rokitansky-Maude Abbott syndrome
Robbert de Winter
Robbert J. de Winter (1958 – ) is a Dutch Professor of cardiology. Eponym: de Winter T wave - a new ECG Sign of Proximal LAD Occlusion
Clinical debriefing
Clinical debriefing refers to learning conversations that occur soon after clinical events and involve the frontline workers that took part in patient care.
Ernst Mørch
Ernst Trier Mørch (1908-1996) was a Danish-American anesthesiologist, inventor, geneticist and humanitarian. Mueller-Mørch ventilator (1954); Mørch Laryngoscope (1951)
Psychological Safety and Simulation
An overview of psychological safety and simulation, including: pre-conditions, explicit and implicit strategies, and how to manage breaches in psychological safety.