Psychology of trauma care
Trauma care should be easy… shouldn’t it? So why doesn’t it feel easy? The clinical component is the easy bit, the challenge is the non-technical factors.
Category Medical Specialty
Gosselin Fracture
Gosselin fracture: V-shaped fracture of the distal tibia that extends into the tibial pylon and divides it into an anterior and posterior fragment. Described 1855, published 1873
Léon Gosselin
Léon Athanase Gosselin (1815–1887) was a French Surgeon associated with the Gosselin Fracture, a V-shaped distal tibia fracture extending to tibial plafond
Walter Bastedo
Walter Arthur Bastedo (1873 - 1952) was a Canadian gastroenterologist. He is eponymously associated with Bastedo sign (1909) of chronic appendicitis.
Macewen medal
The DAS Macewen medal was founded in 2009, by the Difficult Airway Society (DAS). The medal is to recognise distinguished members of the society for their service to the society and airway management.
John Lehane
John Robert Lehane (1945 – 2018) was an English anaesthetist. With Ronald Cormack in 1984: Cormack-Lehane laryngoscopy grades
Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome or Bean syndrome is characterized by multiple recurrent vascular malformations involving the skin and the GI tract
ST depression does not localise
This review will change your approach to localised ST depression on the ECG, which on its own does not accurately localise ischaemia, and may be the first sign of subtle occlusion
Ronald Cormack
Ronald 'Ronnie' Sidney Cormack (1930 - ) English anaesthetist. With John Lehane in 1984: Cormack-Lehane laryngoscopy grades
James Syme
James Syme (1799–1870) was a Scottish General Surgeon. The Syme ankle amputation attributed to him was a triumph of conservative surgery in the days where more proximal amputations had much higher mortality rates.
Pediatric CXR Cases 019
March 2021 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Lizz Olson, MD and Kendra Jackson, MD
Responding to the stress
Responding to the stress and the strain of COVID-19 in the UK - Mastering Intensive Care 067 with Rupert Pearse