The Use of Thrombolysis as a Treatment for Acute Stroke
Do we, as a global medical profession, truly know whether or not tPA is a beneficial treatment early on in the presentation of a CVA?
Category Medical Specialty
Eduard Heinrich Henoch
Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820 – 1910) was a German Paediatrician. Student of Johann Lukas Schönlein, he extended the clinical features of childhood purpura and is eponymously affiliated with Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
Own the Airway!
The LITFL team have scoured the web to find the best collection of online instructional videos known to man or woman to help you 'own the airway'!
Richard F. Ashman
Richard F. Ashman (1890-1970) was an American physiologist. Eponymously affiliated with Ashman phenomenon he first described in 1947
Horner Syndrome
Horner syndrome is associated with an interruption to the sympathetic nerve supply of the eye. It is characterized by the classic triad of miosis, partial ptosis, and anhidrosis +/- enophthalmos
Why we should be very wary of using clotbusting drugs to treat acute strokes
This is Part 1 of three posts a basic overview of thrombolysis in stroke a detailed overview of evidence based research into thrombolysis and CVA Schrödinger’s Fence Author: Prof Daniel Fatovich Let’s compare the treatment of strokes, to the treatment of…
Fine Tuning the Injured Brain
Bart Besinger top 5 little things we can do to fine tune the care of the brain injured patient.
John Addison Fordyce
John Addison Fordyce (1858 –1925) was an American dermatologist. Eponymously affiliated with Fox–Fordyce disease
Fox–Fordyce disease
Fox–Fordyce disease: A chronic itchy papular condition occurring in areas of the skin with apocrine glands especially the axilla of young women.
George Henry Fox
George Henry Fox (1846 – 1937) was an American dermatologist. Eponymously affiliated with Fox–Fordyce disease (and not Fox's sign)
Lid cracked open
A 3 year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his father after coming second best in a head versus chair collision. Eyelid laceration
Bashed, Blind and Bulging
A 35 year-old martial artist presents with loss of vision in his right eye after being on the wrong end of a spinning back fist. Can you save his eyesight?