Regional Nerve Block
Critical Care Compendium - The C-IMPLE approach to regional nerve block
Category Medical Specialty
Being More Than A Bystander
Unprofessional behaviours by health professionals, in hospitals, are associated with a significantly increased risk of preventable patient complications.
The men who stare at goats (and big boar)
Tropical Traveler Clinical Case. Brucellosis aetiology, differential, diagnosis, management and treatment.
Masquerading Bundle Branch Block (MBBB)
Mixed pattern of RBBB in precordial leads and LBBB in limb leads, with a higher rate of progression to complete heart block than typical bifascicular block
James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing (1866-1943) Eponymously remembered for describing a new “endothelioma” that would later be known as Ewing sarcoma
Frank Eve
Frank Cecil Eve (1871-1952) was an English physician. Eponym: Eve’s rocking method for artificial respiration published in 1932
Bundgaard syndrome
Bundgaard et al introduced us in 2018 to "Familial ST-segment depression syndrome", a new cardiac arrhythmia syndrome predisposing to atrial fibrillation, VT, and sudden cardiac death.
“Benign” Early Repolarization Misnomer
In 2008, Haïssaguerre et al challenged the well-embedded term "benign" early repolarization by demonstrating a link between this familiar ECG pattern and idiopathic VF arrest
Konrad Weiss
Konrad Weiss (1891 - 1976) was an Austrian radiologist. Early descriptions of Müller-Weiss syndrome, the dissecting aortic aneurysm, and gastric torsion
Aslanger Pattern: Another OMI?
Aslanger et al identified a specific ECG pattern concerning for acute inferior occlusion MI in patients with concomitant multi-vessel disease, that does not display contiguous ST-segment elevation or fulfil STEMI criteria
Abdominal Imaging Cases 013
December 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Michael Avery; Joshua Davis; Kelsey Lena and Kyle Cunningham, MD
Friedrich Arnold
Friedrich Arnold (1803 – 1890) was a German professor emeritus of anatomy and physiology