Being More Than A Bystander
Unprofessional behaviours by health professionals, in hospitals, are associated with a significantly increased risk of preventable patient complications.
Category Medical Specialty
The men who stare at goats (and big boar)
Tropical Traveler Clinical Case. Brucellosis aetiology, differential, diagnosis, management and treatment.
Masquerading Bundle Branch Block (MBBB)
Mixed pattern of RBBB in precordial leads and LBBB in limb leads, with a higher rate of progression to complete heart block than typical bifascicular block
Augustus Desiré Waller
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856 – 1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first ever electrocardiogram (ECG).
James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing (1866-1943) Eponymously remembered for describing a new “endothelioma” that would later be known as Ewing sarcoma
Will Pickles
Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo The great order of the ages is born afresh. Major Greenwood, 1939 Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
Frank Eve
Frank Cecil Eve (1871-1952) was an English physician. Eponym: Eve’s rocking method for artificial respiration published in 1932
Bundgaard syndrome
Bundgaard et al introduced us in 2018 to "Familial ST-segment depression syndrome", a new cardiac arrhythmia syndrome predisposing to atrial fibrillation, VT, and sudden cardiac death.
William Dabney
William Cecil Dabney (1849-1894) was an American physician and obstetrician. 'Devil's grip' (pleurodynia), the first to be published in North America.
“Benign” Early Repolarization Misnomer
In 2008, Haïssaguerre et al challenged the well-embedded term "benign" early repolarization by demonstrating a link between this familiar ECG pattern and idiopathic VF arrest
Konrad Weiss
Konrad Weiss (1891 - 1976) was an Austrian radiologist. Early descriptions of Müller-Weiss syndrome, the dissecting aortic aneurysm, and gastric torsion
Aslanger Pattern: Another OMI?
Aslanger et al identified a specific ECG pattern concerning for acute inferior occlusion MI in patients with concomitant multi-vessel disease, that does not display contiguous ST-segment elevation or fulfil STEMI criteria