Jean-Nicolas Corvisart
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart des Marets (1755 - 1821) was a French physician.
Diphtheria Antitoxin
Find out when to give the diphtheria vaccine in the immunisation schedule and when to give the antitoxin via our A-Z tropical vaccine library.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Wrestling with Risk
Risk in Emergency medicine - what is it, how to doctors assess it and how they make decisions? How can we make things better? Some answers, more questions.
Future of UCEM Decided
Today, at Enlightenment Boulevard near Pyongyang, standing before a joyous throng, Egerton Y. Davis IV made a momentous announcement.
An Old Dog Learning New Tricks
Joe Lex, at SMACC of course, speaks about being 'An Old Dog Learning New Tricks' in emergency medicine.
Charles Stent
Biography Medical Eponyms A dental splint destined to control the Stent* is fitted to any existing teeth or to the alveolar ridge (see figs. 1 and 2), and the sulcus is deepened per oram to the satisfaction of the dental…
William Harvey
William Harvey (1578 - 1657) was an English physician
Pedro Brugada
Biography Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Major Publications References
Synthetic Marijuana
It is probably more appropriate to use the term 'cannabinoid analog' rather than Synthetic Marijuana, but now we’re talking semantics.
Ultrasound Case 089
A woman of 40 presents with intermittent RUQ pain and nausea. You try to find her gallbladder. Wall-echo-shadow (WES) sign
UCEM Promises Communication Training
Although UCEM are reassured that their ELF regimen for weight loss is gradually gaining wider acceptance, the college is concerned that the message is not being communicated according to utopian ideals.