The Great Fluid Debate
John Myburgh hypothesises that resuscitation fluids cause more harm than they save lives.
T. Philip Ayre
Thomas Philip Ayre (1901-1979) was an English anaesthetist. Ayre is most well-known for his eponymous T-piece, a device which revolutionised anaesthesia for babies and children.
Usual care in sepsis
Despite decades of research, there is little agreement on what sepsis is. Jeremy Faust explores What even IS “usual care” in sepsis now?
Harold Arthur Hill
Harold Arthur Hill (1901-1973) was an American radiologist who worked with Maurice David Sachs (1909-1987). Eponym: Hill-Sachs lesion (1940)
Interprofessional conflict
Laura Rock and Jenny Rudolph give strategies for managing interprofessional conflict at the bedside in a critical care setting.
History of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter
History of the Development, and widespread adoption, of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter (PAC) or Swan-Ganz catheter
Mary Holt
Mary Clayton Holt (1924 - 1993) was an English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960)
Live(r) Life
Dara Kass experience as physician, mother and organ donator to her son.
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (1895 - 1973) Nobel Laureate and celebrated American Physician. Famously known for his work in development of cardiac catherisation and physiology with André Frédéric Cournand and Werner Theodore Otto Forßman.
Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodore Otto Forßman (1904 - 1979) was a German Doctor, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer of interventional cardiology.
Nancy B. Esterly
Nancy Burton Esterly (1935 - 2017) was an American pediatric dermatologist. Esterly-McKusick syndrome (1971)
Dock’s murmur
Dock’s murmur: Early diastolic murmur when there is a severe stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery. 1967 William Dock