Forrest Bird
Forrest Bird (1921-2015) was an American aviator, inventor, biomedical engineer and medical doctor: Bird Mark ventilator; BabyBird ventilator
Category LITFL
Emergency Procedures
Interview with the lead authors of the first iteration of a FOAMed online, peer reviewed, evidence based, Emergency Procedures website/phone app.
Jacob Moritz Blumberg
Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873 - 1955) was a Polish-German surgeon and gynaecologist. Blumberg sign (1907); Blumberg glove (1900)
Blumberg sign
Rebound tenderness test (Blumberg sign) initially described in 1907 by Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873 – 1955), German surgeon and gynaecologist.
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.
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.