Ejner Sylvest
Ejner Oluf Sørensen Sylvest (1880-1972) Danish physician named and defined Bornholm disease, framing epidemic pleurodynia decades before its viral cause was confirmed.
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Bornholm disease
Acute, transient viral myositis involving intercostal and abdominal muscles associated with Coxsackievirus B. Eponym: Ejner Sylvest (1930)
Axel Fugl-Meyer
Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Fugl-Meyer Assessment of sensorimotor recovery after stroke The Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is a clinician-administered, stroke-specific measure of impairment that evaluates motor function, sensation, balance, passive joint movement and joint pain. Its motor component is usually divided…
Name that murmur
Eponymythology: heart murmur eponyms and named cardiac murmurs. Related eponyms, the person behind their origin, their relevance today, and modern terminology.
Signe Brunnstrom
Signe Brunnstrom (1898–1988), Swedish-American physical therapist who shaped clinical kinesiology, amputee rehabilitation, and stroke recovery staging.
Echo basics: Key concepts
Echocardiography basics and the differences between 2D imaging, M-mode, pulsed wave Doppler, continuous wave Doppler, and tissue Doppler imaging.
Thomas E. Twitchell
Thomas Evans Twitchell (1923-2017) defined sequential motor recovery after hemiplegia, shaping Brunnstrom staging and Fugl-Meyer assessment.
Airway – Cricothyroidotomy (surgical)
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Surgical Cricothyroidotomy - inability to oxygenate and ventilate with (BVM, LMA, ETT) and age >10years
William Dabney
William Cec. Dabney (1849–1894) described epidemic chest pain (“Devil’s Grip”) and championed medical education, licensure, and public health in Virginia
Adie syndrome
Holmes–Adie syndrome: a benign neurological condition marked by tonic pupils and areflexia, historically mistaken for neurosyphilis.
Cornelia de Lange
Cornelia Catharina de Lange (1871-1950) was a Dutch pediatrician. Described Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) in 1933
Charles Chaddock
Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1861-1936) was an American neurologist, psychiatrist, poet and medical translator. Chaddock sign and Chaddock wrist sign