May the 4th Be With You – Padawan to Jedi (exam resource)
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COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath
Introduction to a series of posts titled "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath", focusing on the need to build on existing knowledge in critical care and the appropriate testing of new therapies and innovations.
How to be EPIC (in the time of COVID)
Evolution is afoot. It‘s entirely possible you will have noticed a bit of an alteration in the world around us...How to be EPIC (in the time of COVID).
Ottomar Rosenbach
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851 - 1907) was a German physician. Rosenbach sign of aortic regurgitation (1878), Rosenbach sign of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Rosenbach-Semon Law (1880), and Rosenbach test (1880).
Still’s murmur
Still's Murmur ejection systolic murmur first described in 1909 by English pediatrician Sir George Frederic Still KCVO (1868 – 1941)
Capgras syndrome
Capgras syndrome: uncommon syndrome in which a patient has a delusional belief that a person, usually a family member or friend, has been replaced by an imposter.
Joseph Capgras
French psychiatrist, Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) best known for his description 'syndrome d’illusion des sosies', Capgras syndrome in 1923
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture (1886 - 1960) was an American pathologist. Goodpasture syndrome (1918)
Overcoming uncertainty in the Age of COVID-19
Overcoming uncertainty in the Age of COVID-19. Part 7 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series.
Novel drug therapies and COVID-19 clinical trials
Novel drug therapies and clinical research. Part 6 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series
MacGyverism and “hacking COVID-19”
Implementation ,testing, and development of innovations into clinical practice. Part 5 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series.
COVID-19: “To PEEP, or not to PEEP”?
Part 4 of "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" discussing the setting of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) in critically ill COVID-19 patients.