Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 323
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 323 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
Louis Nelson Katz
Louis Nelson Katz (1897-1973) was an American cardiologist. Katz is eponymously associated with Katz-Wachtel phenomenon (1937)
Denise Louis-Bar
Denise Louis-Bar (1914 - 1999) was a Belgian neuropathologist. Louis-Bar syndrome (1941), ataxia-telangiectasia
Fox’s sign
Fox's sign: non-traumatic ecchymosis over the upper outer aspect of the thigh secondary to abdominal haemorrhage. First described by English surgeon John Adrian Fox in 1966
John A. Fox
John Adrian Fox English surgeon. Eponym: Fox's sign (1966) non-traumatic ecchymosis upper outer thigh with abdominal haemorrhage
R Wave Peak Time RWPT
RPWT is the time from onset of earliest Q wave or R wave to the peak of the R wave in lateral leads
Chopart fracture dislocation
Dislocation of the foot through the talonavicular and the calcaneocuboid joints (Chopart joint) with associated fractures. François Chopart
The ST Segment
ST segment is the flat section of the ECG between end of S and start of the T wave between ventricular depolarization and repolarization EKG
Lisa Welander
Lisa Welander (1909 - 2001) was a Swedish neurologist. Sweden's first professor of neurology. Welander distal myopathy; Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander syndrome
Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Venous Access
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Stabler Sign
Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis in the inguinal-pubic area associated with ectopic pregnancy. Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902–1967)
Francis Edward Stabler
Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902 – 1967) English surgeon, obstetrician and gynaecologist. Eponym: Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis