Neuroimaging Cases 010
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
Category Medical Specialty
History of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): history, pioneers, modern use, efficacy, and controversy, one of psychiatry’s most enduring treatments.
Own the Hamilton
Own the Hamilton: video guide to transitioning from Oxylog to Hamilton T1. Learn manual strategies, ASV, and simulation-based ventilator training.
Dominique-Jean Larrey
Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766–1842), Napoleon’s surgeon, pioneered flying ambulances, triage, and humane battlefield care, earning admiration from all sides.
Procedure: Haematoma Block
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: Haematoma block; used in forearm or distal radius fracture requiring reduction
Peter Safar
Peter Safar (1924–2003), father of modern resuscitation, pioneered CPR, ICUs, paramedic training, and therapeutic hypothermia.
Quincke’s Triad
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
Romberg Sign
Romberg’s sign: a classic neurological test detecting proprioceptive loss by demonstrating postural instability with eyes closed.
Howship-Romberg sign
Howship-Romberg sign: pain and paraesthesia along the distribution of the obturator nerve (medial thigh to knee); a clinical indicator of obturator nerve compression, commonly due to an obturator hernia
Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall (1790–1857): Pioneer of reflex physiology, anti-bloodletting reformer, creator of the Ready Method for resuscitation, and advocate for animal ethics.
James Marion Sims
American gynecologist James Marion Sims (1813-1883) pioneered vesicovaginal fistula surgery but remains controversial for non-consensual experiments on enslaved women.
Emanuel Libman
Emanuel Libman (1872–1946), American internist who co-described Libman-Sacks endocarditis and revolutionised diagnostic medicine at Mount Sinai.