Nils Westermark
Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (1892 - 1980) was a Swedish radiologist. Westermark sign (1938) of relative oligemia on CXR in pulmonary embolism
Category LITFL
Sgarbossa Criteria history
Sgarbossa's rule, proposed for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle branch block. Sgarbossa Criteria can be used to assist in determining which patients with LBBB are having an AMI.
Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914) was a British physiologist central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology
Pierre Barrère
Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion
William Morrant Baker
William Morrant Baker (1839 – 1896) was a British General Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Baker's cyst and Baker's cannula, a flexible tracheal cannula
John Osborn
John J Osborn (1917 – 2014) was an American intensivist, pediatrician and inventor. Eponym: 'current of injury' Osborn wave - 1953
Arthur Ernest Sansom
Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838 - 1907) was an English physician and anaesthetist.
Epley manoeuvre
Epley maneuver: Particle repositioning maneuver for the treatment of BPPV - with the aim of moving the canaliths out of the posterior semicircular, back into the utricle.
Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher (1841 – 1917) was a Swiss Surgeon. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909. 5,000 thyroid excisions. Shoulder reduction
James Hope
Biography Born 23 February 1801 Stockport, England 1825 – Medical degree, Edinburgh University 1828 – MD Edin LRCP 1839 – Full physician at St. George’s Hospital 1840 – MRCS FRS FRCP Died 12 May 1841 of pulmonary tuberculosis Medical Eponyms…
Paula Hertwig
Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig (1889 - 1993) was a German geneticist. Hertwig-Weyers syndrome - Congenital disorder associating ulnar and digital aplasia - (1942, 1957)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 306
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 306 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind The medical trivia FFFF.