Another subdural block, or was it?

Subdural block and the anaesthetist.

There are a number of case reports describing accidental subdural block during the performance of subarachnoid or epidural anaesthesia. However it appears that subdural drug deposition remains a poorly understood complication of neuraxial anaesthesia. The clinical presentation may often be attributed to other causes. Subdural injection of local anaesthetic can present as high sensory block, som...

It was logical but was it the whole truth?

Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was initially characterized as a degenerative process (disorder) because of a tendency to describe any disorder that was not well understood and often occurred in the ‘elderly’ as degenerative. In the last ‘15–20’ years, the observation of the presence of risk factors for arterial atherosclerosis in patients with calcific AS, the production of aortic valve calcific...

Was it a vision or a waking dream?

Reminiscent of Wilder Penfield’s famous experiments, Neurologists in France have reported a remarkable case in which intraoperative electrical stimulations of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in a conscious patient induced transient dreamlike states with vivid visual imagery (Herbet et al., 2014). The implicated circuitry and nature of the experiences evoked comparisons with findings from o...

Murder, she wrote or was it merely selective nontreatment?

Was It Malarious Fever or Sun-Stroke Cured by Quinine?

days. What is this "terrible disease" that is cured so easily and safely with quinine? "true cases of insolation"? JSo, I say, most assuredly no-, hundreds upon hundreds of Europeans, Military and Civilian, in India, have lost their lives from this " terrible disease" in the past, and many do now, annually, for want of the great antidote, whose value and power is not known to the mass, even of ...