Lung ultrasound: COVID-19 cases
When is a COVID case not a COVID case? Lung ultrasound: COVID-19 cases with @thesonocave
Category Respiratory
CXR eponyms in pulmonary embolism
Eponymythology associated with chest X-ray signs in pulmonary embolus and pulmonary infarction. We review related eponyms, the person behind their origin, their relevance today, and modern terminology
Lotte Strauss
Lotte Strauss (1913–1985) was a German born, American practicing pathologist. Eponymous affiliation with Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) in 1951. Now known as Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)
Churg–Strauss syndrome
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) - archaic eponym: Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) or allergic granulomatosis
Louis Hamman
Louis Virgil Hamman (1877 - 1946) was an American physician.
Leo Schamroth
Biography Born 2 June 1924 in Antwerp, Belgium 1929 – Family emigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa 1948 – Medical degree, University of the Witwatersrand 1949 – Internship at the ‘Non-European Hospital’ in Hillbrow, Johannesburg 1952 – Member of the Royal…
CXR Essentials: Types of atelectasis
Julian Dobranowski video helps you classify and identify different types of atelectasis on Chest X-ray. Atelectasis defined as reduced inflation of all, or part, of the lung.
CXR Essentials: The Failing Heart
Julian Dobranowsk Medmastery help identify the features of cardiac failure on the chest X-ray. Evaluation of the three stages of failure
They meant well
I am a doctor who questions a lot of medical dogma. Perhaps my own, somewhat sad medical story at least in part explains this oppositional personality trait. Valendar F Turner FRACS FACEM In 1950, when I was five years old,…
Searching for Smaug
The spontaneous tension pneumothorax...does it really exist?
Tension pneumothorax – time to change the old mantra?
ATMIST handover - 28 y/o male, injured 25 mins ago, penetrating chest trauma, Asherman seal anterior chest, RR 35, deteriorating, high flow O2 administered.
Tension Pneumothorax – an alternative view
Ever since being faced with a spontaneous tension pneumothorax at sea on a dived submarine...I have had an interest in managing pneumothorax.