Some conditions seem to be recurring themes for case reports. To stop the danger of sandwiches being missed perhaps we should change how we teach medical students to take the history of someone who complains of fainting. Even though swallow syncope is mentioned in many textbooks and has a wealth of case reports and reviews, […]
Month: December 2008
Doctors revive patient using powerful magnet
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive method for stimulating the brain and, in particular, the cerebral cortex. It uses a powerful electromagnet to generate a strong magnetic field that induces electrical current in the brain in much the same as direct stimulation with electricity. First described in 1985,1 it is being investigated for many conditions […]
Report of successful forequarter amputation
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) surgeon David Nott provided a very public case report of successful forequarter amputation this week. http://www.msf.org.uk/surgery_by_text_message_20081203.news What made this extraordinary was that he and the patient were in Congo, he had never performed the procedure before and he received instructions on how to do it from a surgical colleague in the […]