Category Medical Specialty

Howard Hailey

Biography Medical Eponyms Hailey-Hailey disease (Familial Benign Chronic Pemphigus) Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Biography Eponymous terms

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COVID-19 – We are all in this together

Our need to bring our best selves to work has become more important in the face of this COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe. Many intensive care clinicians are presently overwhelmed by escalating numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients whilst many…

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Sgarbossa Criteria history

Sgarbossa's rule, proposed for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle branch block. Sgarbossa Criteria can be used to assist in determining which patients with LBBB are having an AMI.

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Pierre Barrère

Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion

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William Morrant Baker

William Morrant Baker (1839 – 1896) was a British General Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Baker's cyst and Baker's cannula, a flexible tracheal cannula