John L. Lovibond
Biography Born on May 4, 1907 1929 – BA 1932 – MRCS LRCP 1933 – MA 1934 – MB BCh 1935 – MRCP 1936 – MD 1943 – FRCP Died on May 4, 1954 Medical Eponyms Lovibond angle (profile sign)…
Category Respiratory
Network Five: Pulmonary embolism
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 11 - Pulmonary embolism with PERT teams, YEARS and the RELAX-PE studies
Leo Schamroth
Professor Abraham Leo Schamroth (1924-1988) was a South African cardiologist.
Peter Kerley
Sir Peter James Kerley (1900-1979) was an Irish radiologist. Kerley was widely published including describing (but not naming) his eponymous lines firstly in 1933 and then in again his textbook in 1950, and widely about TB diagnosis. Kerley lines A, B and C
Severe asthma management
Haney Mallemat recounts a story of an asthmatic who minutes after he was intubated, became bradycardic, hypertensive and coded.
Common Trauma Radiology Misses
Andrew Dixon takes us through five Common Trauma Radiology Misses and Misinterpretations.
ECG changes in Pulmonary Embolism
The ECG changes associated with acute pulmonary embolism may be seen in any condition that causes acute pulmonary hypertension, including hypoxia causing pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction.
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture (1886 - 1960) was an American pathologist. Goodpasture syndrome (1918)
William Stokes (physician)
William Stokes (1804–1878) was an Irish physician. Eponymously affiliated with Cheyne-Stokes respiration and Stokes-Adams syndrome
SARS-CoV-2 phenotypes
Some experts divide patients in two separate phenotypes: The “L” phenotype characterized by a hypoxemic failure and “low elastance” lungs (high compliance) and the “H” phenotype with “high elastance and recoil” lungs (lower compliance).
CXR Case 157
A 79 year old female with a history of atrial fibrillation and hypertension presents with increasing dyspnea. Interpret the evolving CXR's
CXR Case 156
An 18 year old female presents with right sided pleuritic chest pain. describe and interpret her CXR