Professor Dame Averil Mansfield emphasizes responsibility and competence in leadership rather than performance. She advocates for generalism in medicine, reflecting on her experiences and concerns about fragmented patient care today.
History of neuraxial anaesthesia: milestones in spinal and epidural blockade from Koller and Corning to Quincke, Bier, Tuohy and Curbelo.
A 35 year old male presents with recurrent episodes of spontaneous bleeding from his right ear. What does the CT angiogram show?
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A 52 year old man is brought to hospital by ambulance complaining of 2 weeks of abdominal pain and constipation. What does the abdominal CT show?
Achille Mario Dogliotti (1897-1966), Italian surgeon. Pioneer of epidural anaesthesia (Dogliotti’s principle), pain therapy, cardiac surgery, and total extracorporeal blood circulation
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Auto-appendicectomy: three landmark self-appendectomy cases—Kane (1921), McLaren (1944), Rogozov (1961)—and what they reveal about surgery in extremis.
Fernand Cathelin (1873–1960), Paris urologist who pioneered caudal epidural anaesthesia (Cathelin’s method) and designed the urine-divider and air cystoscope.
Airway Case 001: Active emesis during VL intubation, suction-assisted decontamination (SALAD), bougie troubleshooting, and aspiration
Charles T Dotter (1920–1985): father of interventional radiology; coronary imaging pioneer, 1964 angioplasty, catheter thrombolysis, and stents.
Pharmacology of etomidate (Critical Care Compendium). General anaesthetic / induction agent. Carboxylated imidazole derivative