Category Medical Specialty
Henri-Marie-René-Leriche-1879–1955 1200

René Leriche

Henri Marie René Leriche (1879–1955) French surgeon. Described as the father of vascular surgery. Leriche syndrome (1940), Leriche operation (1913)

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Ultrasound Case 017

A 23 year old woman presents with right sided pelvic pain and vaginal spotting. Her last period was 6 or 7 weeks ago and her urinary BHCG is positive. You perform a transvaginal ultrasound.

Dislocated? Put your shoulder into it!

Shoulder dislocations. Few procedures are more fulfilling in the emergency department. A little intra-articular lidocaine, some ketamine (always the answer), some propofol, and you’ve nearly instantaneously fixed a painful condition. Thankfully we’ve moved on from the barbaric techniques pictured below.…

Mastering-Intensive-Care MIC 340

Mastering Intensive Care 037 with Michael O’Leary

Interview with Michael O’Leary – Dealing with the frustrations of the changing ICU landscape (SG-ANZICS special episode) Our ICUs might be growing larger in size but there seem to be the same number of very sick patients to care for…

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Ultrasound Case 035

Potentially difficult intubation of man with a receding chin and unusual jaw anatomy. You decide to watch the intubation with ultrasound.

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Marcus Gunn Pupil

A pupil that responds by constricting more to an indirect than to a direct light, seen with unilateral optic nerve or retinal disease

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894)

Hermann von Helmholtz

Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Young–Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory of Colour Vision Helmholtz expanded on the earlier hypothesis of Thomas Young (1773–1829), who proposed that human colour vision relied on three types of retinal receptors. In the mid-1850s, Helmholtz refined this into…

Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878 – 1937) 1200

Kinnier Wilson

Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878 – 1937) was an American-born British neurologist. Following his extensive work on hepatolenticular degeneration this condition is eponymously termed Wilson disease