Category Medical Specialty
TRAUMA LIBRARY 340

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

TRAUMA LIBRARY 340

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.

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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…

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…

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Henri Victor Chaput

Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput (1857 – 1919) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Tillaux-Chaput fracture (1907)

Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud

Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796 - 1881) was a French physician. Bouillaud disease (1835), Bouillaud sign (1846), Bouillaud Law of Coincidence (1836)

Charles James Blasius Williams

Biography Medical Eponyms Williams sign (1840) Systolic protrusion of the precordium and retractions of the epigastrium in patients with adherent pericarditis Williams described the findings of inspection and palpation which he identified in patients with adherent pericarditis in his 1840…