AVPU Responsiveness Scale
Overview of the AVPU scale: a simple, rapid tool to assess level of consciousness. Covers application, clinical utility, and comparison with the Glasgow Coma Scale
Category Neurology
Autonomic Dysreflexia
Overview of Autonomic Dysreflexia: causes, symptoms, complications, triggers, diagnosis, and management in patients with spinal cord injury.
Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis
cavernous sinus thrombosis: causes, complications, clinical features, investigations, imaging, management including antibiotics, anticoagulation, and prognosis
Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
Ramsay Hunt Syndrome: clinical features, differential diagnosis from Bell’s palsy, investigations, management with antivirals and steroids, prognosis.
Bell’s Palsy
Overview of Bell’s palsy: causes, clinical features, complications, diagnosis, differential diagnoses, investigations, and management including steroids, eye care, and antivirals
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
Overview of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: presentation, risk factors, rupture risk, clinical features, investigations, emergency management, and surgical options
Gaspard Vieusseux
Swiss physician Gaspard Vieusseux (1746–1814) described cerebrospinal meningitis in 1805 and gave the first clinical account of lateral medullary syndrome.
Moritz Benedikt
Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920) was an Austro-Hungarian neurologist. Benedikt syndrome (1889); the criminal mind; dowsing and Darsonvalisation
Parry-Romberg syndrome
Parry-Romberg syndrome: progressive facial hemiatrophy usually involving the soft tissues of one side of the face. Parry (1825) Romberg (1846)
George Huntington
George Huntington (1850-1916) was an was an American physician. Described Huntington's disease (1872) at age 22 based on his family
Charles Miller Fisher
Charles Miller Fisher (1913 - 2012) was a Canadian neurologist. Miller Fisher syndrome (1956) an acquired nerve disease variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
André Strohl
André Strohl (1887-1977) was a French physician and physicist. Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome described in 1916