Beta-Blockers for Cocaine and other Stimulant Toxicity
The toxico-mythology of 'unopposed alpha stimulation' and the contra-indication of beta-blockers in the treatment of cocaine, amphetamine and other stimulant toxicity. Down with dogma!
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician and writer. Best known for his discovery of causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome type II or CRPS II) and erythromelalgia.
John Madison Taylor
John Madison Taylor (1855-1931) was an American pediatric neurologist. He designed the first tendon reflex hammer in 1888
François Gigot de La Peyronie
François Gigot de La Peyronie (1678-1747) was a French surgeon. Eponym: Peyronie disease in 1743
The Magic of the Neuro Exam
The neurological examination in 3 minutes, on video - the highest form of art?
Helpful Brainstem Figures
Helpful Brainstem Figures. Cross-sections of the brainstem. Medial brainstem syndromes and lateral brainstem syndromes
Carl von Liebermeister
Biography Born 2 February 1833, Ronsdorf Died 24 November 1901, Tübingen Medical Eponyms Liebermeister rule: Defining the relationship between pulse frequency and body temperature in fever. In fever, when the body temperature increases by one degree centigrade, the pulse frequency…
Faget Sign
Faget Sign: Relative bradycardia in association with fever (Temperature-pulse dissociation). Originally described by Jean-Charles Faget in patients with yellow fever (1859)
Liebermeister rule
Liebermeister rule: Defining the relationship between pulse frequency and body temperature in fever. Carl von Liebermeister (1833 - 1901)
Jean-Charles Faget
Jean-Charles Faget (1818 - 1884) was a French physician. Faget reported an exception to the Liebermeister rule in his description of yellow fever [Faget sign] in 1858
The rule of 4 of the brainstem
Peter Gates rule of 4 of the brainstem illustrated in a single diagram...why and how?
Brainstem Rules of 4
Gates described a simplified method for answering the question 'Where is the lesion?' using only the parts of the brainstem that we actually examine during a clinical examination to understand brainstem vascular syndromes.