Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Brissaud–Sicard syndrome (1908) A crossed pontine syndrome characterised by ipsilateral facial spasm (hemifacial spasm/cramps) with contralateral hemiparesis, due to a lesion involving the pons (classically the basilar/anterolateral pons affecting corticospinal pathways with irritation of facial nerve…
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Difficult male catheters - We recommend a Seldinger technique
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was an English neurophysiologist. Sherrington’s Laws (1897–1900); Liddell–Sherrington Reflex (1924) and defining the synapse
Jean-Athanase Sicard (1872–1929): French neurologist; caudal epidural pioneer (1901), Lipiodol epidurography/myelography with Forestier, and Collet–Sicard syndrome.
Emergency Procedure: Male Seldinger catheter. Difficult male catheters - We recommend a Seldinger technique
Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) was a was a German anatomist and physiologist. Weber law and Weber test for hearing assessment
Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) English physician and dermatologist; Rendu-Osler-Weber disease; Sturge-Weber syndrome
Sir Hermann David Weber (1823–1918) – German-born physician in London; pioneer of open-air treatment for tuberculosis; co-author of The Mineral Waters and Health Resorts of Europe; namesake of Weber’s syndrome; knighted for services to medicine.
Bernhard Georg (Hardy) Weber (1927 – 2002) was a Swiss surgeon affiliated with the Danis-Weber ankle fracture classification. Medical Eponym
Shoulder Dislocations. Adult Orthopedic case interpretation. A review of Xray and ultrasound (POCUS) evaluation, dislocation types and reduction techniques
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Pericardiocentesis. One of the most difficult and risky but life-saving emergency procedures
Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997): Pioneering neurologist of higher brain function; author of The Parietal Lobes; leader, teacher, and medical humanist.