Category LITFL

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

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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

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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

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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

SMILE2 Mind, Improvement, and Medical Education

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.

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Ernst Mørch

Ernst Trier Mørch (1908-1996) was a Danish-American anesthesiologist, inventor, geneticist and humanitarian. Mueller-Mørch ventilator (1954); Mørch Laryngoscope (1951)