Muehrcke's nails (or Muehrcke lines) are a disorder of the nail bed which can be a reflection of systemic disease. A distinct pattern of paired, white, transverse lines that usually spare the thumbnail and are most commonly in seen in association with hypoalbuminaemia, metabolic stress or chemotherapy.
Murphy’s sign is elicited in patients with acute cholecystitis by asking the patient to take in and hold a deep breath while palpating the right subcostal area. John Benjamin Murphy (1903)
Hypothesis: Women are underrepresented in the realm of medical eponyms. Deep dive into eponymythology, and the roiling ocean of gender imbalance.
Piotr Vasiliyevich Nikolskiy Петро Васильович Нікольський (1858-1940) was a Russian dermatologist
Williams-Beuren syndrome: Generalized disorder characterized by unusual facies, abnormal behavioral abilities, cardiovascular anomalies, especially supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS), renal and other abnormalities
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 16: mindfulness 102 the three-pronged approach to mindfulness
Oxygen Cylinder: Portable supply of supplemental oxygen to maintain aerobic metabolism during patient transport
William Russ Pugh (1806-1897) was an English anaesthetist and surgeon. Pugh's inhlaer; First use of Ether for surgery in Australia
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 344 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
December 2021 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Daniel Escobar, Angela Pikus, Alex Blackwell, and Marianne Dannemiller
Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome is a combination of the presence of a congenital accessory pathway and episodes of tachyarrhythmia.
Fontaine bipolar precordial leads (F-ECG) are used to increase the sensitivity of epsilon wave detection, characteristic of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD/C)