Airway – Nasopharyngeal airway
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Nasopharyngeal airway for upper airway obstruction (partial or complete)
Airway manoeuvres
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Airway manoeuvres for upper airway obstruction (partial or complete)
Procedure: Central Venous Catheter (IJV)
Emergency Procedure, instructions and discussion: Internal Jugular (IJV) Central Venous Catheter placement
Augusta Klumpke
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859-1927) was an American neurologist. Klumpke palsy (1885). First woman in France to receive the title of ‘interne des hôpitaux’ and the first female President of the Societé de neurologie de Paris.
Procedure: Central Venous Catheter (IJV)
Emergency Procedure: Internal Jugular (IJV) Central Venous Catheter placement
Echo basics: Apical and Subcostal Views
Patient position coupled with probe placement and orientation for optimal apical and subcostal views
Sergei Korsakoff
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (1854 - 1900) Серге́й Серге́евич Ко́рсаков Russian neuropsychiatrist, identified Korsakoff syndrome and pioneered humane psychiatric care and memory disorder research.
Procedure: Speculum examination
Emergency Procedure, instructions and discussion: Speculum examination and removal of products, how (and when) to find the cervix in the emergency department.
Bell’s palsy
Bell’s palsy: Acute idiopathic unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve. Named after Sir Charles Bell and his description in 1827
Pancoast Syndrome
Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.
Pancoast Tumour
Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Henry Pancoast
Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him