Louis Hamman
Louis Virgil Hamman (1877-1946) was an American physician. Credited for Hamman-Rich syndrome, Hamman Syndrome and Hamman sign.
Tag pneumomediastinum
Ultrasound Case 086
A 75 year old man with a history of fibrosing alveolitis, on home oxygen presented with chest and neck pain, a strange and altered voice and itchy sensation in his throat, and swelling of his neck. It had gradually worsened over 10 days prior to presentation
Charles Macklin
Charles Clifford Macklin (1883-1959) was a Canadian pulmonologist. Macklin Effect (1939)
Puffed Post-Tracheostomy
An ICU patient has become increasingly 'puffed' post-tracheostomy. Can you figure out why? What are your going to do about it?
Not just pneumonia
A 30 year-old male presented with 24 hours of worsening respiratory distress, following a 5-day prodrome of cough, fever, diarrhoea, lethargy and malaise.