Cardiac arrest system
A strong interdependent system of care can improve survival from out of hospital cardiac arrest, with Tony Walker ASM
Category Neurology
Thinking Beyond Bleeding
Not all major trauma patients are hypotensive from hypovolemia: what are the differential diagnoses? with Caroline Leech
Nailing the paediatric Lumbar Puncture
Ahilan Parameswaran discuses the role of ultrasound in paediatric lumbar puncture.
Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest
Does POCUS delay CPR in cardiac arrest? Should we be doing transesophageal echocardiography in the resus room? A pro-con case-based debate.
Multimodal monitoring
Brandon Foreman delivers a rapid-fire talk on assessing stroke symptoms; using EEG after acute brain injury; and advanced multimodality monitoring.
Charles Brown-Sequard
Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817 - 1894) was a French physician and physiologist. Brown-Séquard Syndrome (1850); Brown-Séquard Elixir; hormone therapy
Carl Westphal
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Westphal sign, Westphal syndrome, Westphall-Strümpell pseudosclerosis, Westphal-variant Huntington disease, Leyden-Westphal ataxia, and the Edinger-Westphal nucleus
Adolf von Strümpell
Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell (1853 - 1925) was a German neurologist. Strümpell signs, Strümpell-Lorrain disease, Marie-Strümpell disease and Westphal-Strümpell pseudosclerosis.
Eduardo Tolosa
Eduard Tolosa i Colomer (1900 - 1981) was a Spanish neurosurgeon. described the superior orbital fissure syndrome in 1954 (Tolosa-Hunt syndrome)
Adolf Wallenberg
Adolf Wallenberg (1862-1949) was a German neurologist. Wallenberg Syndrome and the Wallenberg Tract
Pirkko Santavuori
Pirkko Santavuori (1933 - 2004) was a Finnish paediatric neurologist. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) [Santavuori disease]
Ingrid Gamstorp
Ingrid Gamstorp (1924 - 2007) was a Swedish paediatric neurologist. Gamstorp disease (1956); Gamstorp-Wohlfart Syndrome (1959)