Anton syndrome
Anton syndrome: Visual anosognosia or Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare neurological condition related to cortical blindness. The patients deny their blindness and affirm adamantly that they are capable of seeing.
Extrapyramidal Side Effects
I drew my inspiration for the Extrapyramidal Side Effects flashcard from the pop photography of Andy Warhol.
Odentophagia
Procrastination and Neologisation met in a bar. Eponyms and retrodiction lay idle as they were enveloped by the dankness of stagnant learning, draped in the predilection of Morpheus. They begat an heir 'Odentophagia'
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 232
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 232 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Opiate Withdrawal
In the flashcard we added the classic dead baby on the ceiling as seen later in the film. Lastly, while I didn’t include an antidote flashcard for Narcan (Naloxone), I would have surely drawn inspiration from Renton’s visit to Mother Superior.
Toxicology Antidote Hyperbaric Oxygen
In this flashcard I drew my friend and colleague Dr Jawad Kassem, a Board Certified Hyperbaric Medicine doctor.
Ultrasound Case 090
A 30 year old woman presents with right iliac fossa pain. Quantitative BHCG is positive at 2500 IU. Her bladder is empty so you proceed to transvaginal ultrasound.
Airway ultrasound the oesophagus
Transverse views of the lower anterior neck. The aim is to visualise the trachea and oesophagus, so that during tracheal intubation, inadvertent oesophageal intubation may be identified and immediately corrected.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 231
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 231 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (spinal form of muscular atrophy) is the commonest disease within a group of conditions called Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies (HMSN).
Johannes von Esmarch
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (1823 - 1908) was a German Surgeon.
H Kirk Watson
Biography 1960 – Graduated George Washington University Medical Eponyms Watson’s test (1988) [scaphoid shift] – to assess scapholunate instability Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Watson HK, Ashmead D 4th, Makhlouf MV. Examination of the scaphoid. J Hand Surg Am. 1988…