Airway management
Adam Rehak provides practical pearls about managing the unexpected difficult airway; emphasising the importance of effective teamwork with the Vortex approach and the DAS guidelines.
Category Medical Specialty
Pipkin fracture
Pipkin classification of femoral head fracture designed by Garrett Pipkin (1904-1981) and first published 1957
Paediatric analgesia
Great pediatric care requires excellent pain management, and excellent pain management requires the recognition that sucrose is not a pain medication.
Simon and Neil get plastered
Practical guide: How to apply the backslab in adults and paediatrics. POP, plaster of paris, physical plaster cast back-slab technique
Buddy strap no more
Buddy strap: Stick this poster on that cupboard (now called the finger cupboard) and start your patients finger rehab a week earlier.
Developmental dysplasia of the hip
Description Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), previously referred to as congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH), means that the hip joint of a newborn baby is dislocated or prone to dislocation. History Calot – 1905, 1926 Ortolani – 1935…
A better way to get plastered
Plaster cast templates for fracture immobilisation, including technique for thumb spika, colles cast, backslabs and templates
Spaso reductions and immobilisation
Spaso shoulder reduction technique. For Anterior shoulder dislocation and Posterior shoulder dislocation
Pierre Le Damany
Pierre Le Damany (1870 - 1963) was a French physician. Best known for his extensive work on congenital dislocation of the hip, the diagnosis, mechanism and treatment
Henry Woltman
Henry Woltman (1889 - 1964) was an American neurologist. Eponym: Woltman sign of myxedema (1924/1956) published by Chaney
James Sanders
Biography Medical Eponyms Sanders sign (1823) The undulatory character of the cardiac impulse in the epigastric region, indicative of adherent pericardium (l’adhérence du péricarde). Specifically the presence of a depression occurring under the left ribs and in the epigastrium during…
Henri Victor Chaput
Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput (1857 – 1919) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Tillaux-Chaput fracture (1907)