John Parkinson
Sir John Parkinson (1885-1976) was an English cardiologist. In 1930, Parkinson along with Louis Wolff and Paul Dudley White, described WPW Syndrome
Category Cardiology
Louis Wolff
Louis Wolff (1898-1972) was an American cardiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) described in 1930
Diagnosis, Wenckebach Squared?
Find out the solution to LITFL's most recent ECG Exigency, is the diagnosis Wenckebach? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Diagnosis, Wenckebach?
Can you spot the "deliberate" mistake and solve the puzzle of this unusual ECG tracing? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Friedrich von Müller
Friedrich von Müller (1858-1941) was a German physician. Revered as ‘The Great Clinician’. Müller sign in aortic regurgitation (1889).
ECG Rule of Fours
ECG Rule of Fours - aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy...On your arrival in the ER, the emergency intern casually throws you the ECG.
ECG Case 117
ECG of a 14yr old female who presents following an episode of palpitations and associated dizziness. Interpret her ECG using the Arruda algorithm
Wilhem His Jr
Wilhelm His Jr. (1863–1934) was a Swiss cardiologist and anatomist. Bundle of His (1893) - atrioventricular (AV) bundle
Albert Frank Stanley Kent
Albert Frank Stanley Kent (1863 - 1958) was an English physiologist eponymously associated with the bundle of Kent, an alternative conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles, first described in 1913.
Ultrasound Case 094
A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look.
Thomas Cuming
Thomas Cuming (1798 - 1887) was a North Irish physician renowned for works on aortic incompetence, cancum oris and peripneumonia in children.
Otto Becker
Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828-1890) was a German ophthalmologist, eponymous with Becker sign, and Becker test for astigmatism.