Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first human electrocardiogram (ECG) in 1887. His work laid the foundation for modern electrocardiography and inspired Willem Einthoven’s innovations.
Brain Herniation Syndromes. Clinical and radiological assessment of 13 cases. Neuroimaging case study series with Teresa Crow, Troy Carnwath, Scott DiMeo, L. Erin Miller and Natalie Rall
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): history, pioneers, modern use, efficacy, and controversy, one of psychiatry’s most enduring treatments.
Own the Hamilton: video guide to transitioning from Oxylog to Hamilton T1. Learn manual strategies, ASV, and simulation-based ventilator training.
Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766–1842), Napoleon’s surgeon, pioneered flying ambulances, triage, and humane battlefield care, earning admiration from all sides.
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: Haematoma block; used in forearm or distal radius fracture requiring reduction
Greta Beighton (1939–2017), English nurse and genetic researcher who co-developed the Beighton Score for joint hypermobility and contributed to clinical genetics in South Africa.
The Beighton Score is a simple, numerical index which is used to express the range and severity of joint movements in normal and affected persons.
Peter Beighton (1934–2023) was a clinical geneticist known for research on inherited skeletal disorders and co-developing the Beighton Score for joint hypermobility.
Mary Clayton Holt (1924-1993), English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960); pioneer in cardiac rehab and advocate for women in medicine.
Peter Safar (1924–2003), father of modern resuscitation, pioneered CPR, ICUs, paramedic training, and therapeutic hypothermia.
Quincke's Triad describes hemobilia via the triad of GI bleeding, biliary colic, and jaundice; first detailed by Heinrich Quincke in 1871, named retrospectively in 1975