ABG changes in Cardiac Arrest and CPR
The degree of acid-base abnormality during cardiac arrest and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is dependent on a number of variables
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Arterial Blood Gas in Hypothermia
Arterial Blood Gas in Hypothermia. The solubility of oxygen and carbon dioxide is increased at low temperatures.
Julius Arnold
Julius Arnold (1835 – 1915) was a German pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Type II Chiari malformation (Arnold–Chiari malformation)
Johann Friedrich Meckel The Younger
Johann Friedrich Meckel (the younger) (1781 – 1833) was a German anatomist. He described the Meckel diverticulum he found during a postmortem examination
Lung ultrasound: Empyema
Empyema is a purulent pleural effusion. Seeding of the pleural space by bacteria or rarely fungi is usually from extension from adjacent pulmonary infection.
Lung ultrasound: Pneumothorax
A pneumothorax, an abnormal collection of gas in the pleural space, separating the parietal pleura of the chest wall from the visceral pleura of the lung.
Max Wilms
Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Wilms (1867 – 1918) was a German surgeon and pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Wilms Tumour (nephroblastoma)
Ernest-Charles Lasègue
Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816 – 1883) French Physician. Eponym Lasègue sign of sciatic nerve irritation. Anorexia nervosa. Folie à deux. Conversion hysteria.
Jefferson Fracture
Burst fracture of the atlas (C1). Often occurs as a result of an axial load to the spine from a direct blow to the vertex of the head
Geoffrey Jefferson
Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886 – 1961) British Neurosurgeon. Eponym: Jefferson fracture - a complex burst fracture of the ring of the atlas (C1)
Ramstedt Operation
The history of pyloric stenosis and the Ramstedt Operation (1912) for pyloromyotomy - surgical correction of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, involving longitudinal splitting of the hypertrophic pylorus and leaving the defect open.
Conrad Ramstedt
Conrad Ramstedt (1867–1963) was a German surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Ramstedt Pylorotomy (1912), of which he carried out 70 during his career