Leonard Erskine Hill
Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866 - 1952) was an English physiologist. Remembered for Hill's sign first described in 1909
Category Cardiology
Carl Gerhardt
Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833 - 1902) was a German physician. Eponymously affiliated with a sign a law and a reaction
Arthur Carlton Ernstene
Arthur Carlton Ernstene (1901-1971) was an American cardiologist. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Herrman Blumgart
Herrman Ludwig Blumgart (1895-1977) was an American physician, cardiologist and pioneer of diagnostic nuclear medicine. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Ludwig Traube
Ludwig Traube (1818 - 1876) was a German physician. Traube space; Traube pulse (pulsus bigeminus); Traube sign; and Doppelton
Wide, Complex and Troublesome
A regular wide complex tachycardia. What is the role of adenosine in diagnosis and treatment? What are the other options?
Thomas Morgan Rotch
Thomas Morgan Rotch (1849-1914) was an American pediatrician. Rotch sign in pericardial effusion (1878) and Rotch pediatric incubator (1893)
William Francis Ganong
William Francis 'Fran' Ganong Jr. (1924 – 2007) was an American physiologist. Eponym: Lown-Ganong-Levine (1952)
Thomas Watson
Sir Thomas Watson (1792 - 1882) was an English physician. Remembered for his description of the palpable pulse of aortic regurgitation as likened to a Victorian toy, the water-hammer pulse in 1837
ECG Case 100
31 yr old female who is 5 days post-partum she was brought to the Emergency Department following a episode of collapse. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
ECG Case 099
ECG from a 19 yr old referred by their GP for investigation of palpitations found at a routine medical review. The patient is asymptomatic with no past medical history or regular medications. Describe and interpret this ECG
ECG Case 098
23 yr old male bodybuilder presented following a 30 minute episode of non-exertional chest pain. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG