Dr Laura Rock describes how a simple emotion response tool, GIVE, can be used to help us connect, understand, and support one another. This is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medical Specialty
Perhaps something isn’t always better than nothing
Dr Laura Duggan discusses recent research quantifying airborne particle exposure when using aerosol containment devices for intubation.
John B. Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857 – 1916) was an American physician and abdominal surgeon. Murphy’s Sign (1903); Murphy’s triad; Murphy’s punch test and many more
Berkeley Moynihan
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865 – 1936) was an English General surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Moynihan sign (1905), an adaptation of Murphy’s sign, a method used to differentiate pain in the right upper quadrant.
Róbert Bárány
Róbert Bárány (1876 – 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. Nobel prize in for his “work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.”
COVID-19 miniRAGE with Hicks and Brindley
Dr Chris Hicks (@humanfact0rz) and Prof Peter Brindley (@docpgb) discuss key issues and controversies in the care of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in a miniRAGE podcast.
Niels Thorkild Rovsing
Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862-1927) was a Danish surgeon Eponym linked with Rovsing sign (1907) in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis
Adult CXR Cases 007
May 2020 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Alyssa Thomas, MD and Claire Milam, MD
Rovsing sign
Rovsing sign (1907): In acute appendicitis, palpation of the left lower quadrant may elicit pain in the right lower quadrant. Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862-1927)
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Charles Bonnet syndrome: Visual hallucinations in psychologically normal elderly people and most commonly associated in individuals with visual impairment .
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