Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 281
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 281
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 281 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 31, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF Alice Springs Antibiotics azithromycin blepharoclonus claw hand clindamcin doxycycline Leonardo da Vinic metronidazole moxifloxacin Paget Schrotter syndrome rifampin TMP/SMX ulnar palsy Urschel's Sign Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 094
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 094
A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 29, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: Cardiology TOP 100 Ultrasound echocardiography Pericardial effusion Post CABG Effusion spine sign Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs
Eponymous ankle and talus injuries
Dr Mike Cadogan Eponymous ankle and talus injuries
Eponymythology associated with signs, symptoms, investigation and management of ankle and talus injuries, fractures and conditions. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 28, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponymythology Orthopaedics ankle fracture Bosworth fracture Danis-Weber classification Foot fracture Foot injury Le Fort fracture talus fracture Tillaux fracture Tillaux-Chaput fracture Wagstaffe-Le Fort Fracture Source Type: blogs
Appendicitis eponymous signs
Dr Mike Cadogan Appendicitis eponymous signs
Authors eponymously associated with abdominal signs, symptoms, investigation and management of appendicitis (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponymythology General Surgery Aaron sign Appendicitis Arapov contracture Blumberg sign Charles Dettie Aaron Charles Heber McBurney Cope obturator test cope psoas test Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov Farouk Massouh Jacob Moritz Blumberg Source Type: blogs
History of the Electrocardiogram
Dr Mike Cadogan History of the Electrocardiogram
A brief (...and frequently updated) history of electrocardiography and the eponymous names behind the ECG/EKG... (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 24, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology Eponymictionary Eponymythology Physiology ECG Einthoven triangle Fontaine leads Saitengalvanometer string galvanometer telecardiogram Source Type: blogs
Atraumatic Abdominal Ecchymosis
Dr Mike Cadogan Atraumatic Abdominal Ecchymosis
Non-traumatic abdominal ecchymosis of the abdominal wall and flanks (Grey Turner, Cullen and Stabler); scrotum (Bryant) and upper thigh (Fox) as clues to potentially serious causes of abdominal pathology. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 23, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponymythology General Surgery Abdominal Aortic aneurysm Abdominal Ecchymosis Bryant sign Cullen sign Fox’s sign Francis Edward Stabler George Grey Turner Grey Turner sign John Adrian Fox John Henry Bryant pancreatitis Stabler Source Type: blogs
Diffuse Toxic Goitre
Dr Mike Cadogan Diffuse Toxic Goitre
The problem of nomenclature of diffuse toxic goitre (Parry, Graves or Basedow disease) remains an unsettled one. So lets review the chronological history of eponymous aetiology for toxic goitre/exophthalmic goitre (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 21, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Endocrinology Eponymythology Basedow Caleb Hillier Parry Diffuse Goitre Graves disease Graves-Basedow disease Morbus Basedow Parry disease Robert James Graves Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 093
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 093
A 9 year old boy presented with fever and right flank pain. The concern was pyelonephritis. Look at the first image and see what you think. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Appendicitis Appendicitis in RUQ pyelonephritis Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 280
Michelle Johnston Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 280
Michelle Johnston tosses away the papyrus and pulls out the parchment in this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five on the subject of Shakespeare and Medicine. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: FFFF Literary Medicine Ague Julius Caesar King's Evil malaria Shakespeare Tetter Thersites William Shakespeare Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 092
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 092
A 38 year old patient with diabetes and end-stage renal failure presents with arm pain and sepsis. You are asked whether there is a drainable collection. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Musculoskeletal necrotizing fasciitis soft tissue Subcutaneous emphysema Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 043 with Jo Stewart
Dr Andrew Davies Mastering Intensive Care 043 with Jo Stewart
Mastering Intensive Care Episode 43 with Jo Stewart - Educating, leading, retaining and supporting Intensive Care nurses (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 13, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care BASIC for nurses International nurses day Jo Stewart Nursing Source Type: blogs
Vincent Zachary Cope
Dr Mike Cadogan Vincent Zachary Cope
Sir Vincent Zachary Cope (1881 – 1974) was a British physician and surgeon. Eponymously linked with Cope Psoas test and obturator test. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponym General Surgery Appendicitis Cope obturator test cope psoas test thigh-rotation test Vincent Zachary Cope Zeta Source Type: blogs
Allan Burns
Dr Mike Cadogan Allan Burns
Allan Burns (1781 - 1813) was a Scottish anatomist and surgeon. Remembered for his monograph on heart disease, resuscitation options in cardiac arrest and Burns ligament (1802) (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponym Allan Burns Burns ligament cardiac arrest Resuscitation space of Burns syncope anginosa Source Type: blogs
Charles Heber McBurney
Dr Mike Cadogan Charles Heber McBurney
Charles Heber McBurney (1845 – 1913) was an American surgeon. Most famous for McBurney's point (1889) and McBurney's incision (1894) Medical Eponym. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponym General Surgery Appendicitis Charles Heber McBurney McBurney sign McBurney’s Incision McBurney’s point Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 279
Michelle Johnston Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 279
FFFF 279 is a selection of passages from Ancient Classical Literature, which make reference to Emergency Medicine. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: FFFF bible georgic Herodotus Homer Leviticus sophocles trachiniae virgil Source Type: blogs
