Brilliant images illustrating the art of myocardial infarct localisation by ECG interpretation.
Instant Anatomy Instantly
October 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
Working on some anatomy teaching sessions today, and I stumbled across the online version of Instant Anatomy – a fantastic website with great illustrations to aid the learning of Human Anatomy with diagrams, podcasts and revision questions.
Universally Challenged
July 12, 2010 By 5 Comments
Since the introduction of PBL there has been a steady decline in the provision of anatomy in education and I wanted to see whether this was reflected in the Universally Challenged competition at the Hobart AMSA conference…so I set a 6 question MCQ examination!
Lost Under the Skin?
March 24, 2010 By 3 Comments
Are you bewildered by anatomy? Do you keep getting lost in the maze of nerves, muscles, tendons, vessels, bones and ligaments? Never fear, help is at hand in the form of Sam Loman’s human body ‘subway’ map. Never get lost again.
A Spider called Willis
May 15, 2009 By 2 Comments
A ferocious spider lives in the brain. His name is Willis!
More brainstem lesions
May 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Neurological Mind-boggler 004 Even more scenarios designed to test drive Gates’ Brainstem Rules of 4 (helpful figures here): Scenario 5 You are examining a patient with sudden onset right-sided weakness. These are your clinical examination findings: weakness of the right face, upper and lower limbs. failure of abduction of the left eye. loss of vibration [...]
Helpful Brainstem Figures
May 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
References Gates, P. The rule of 4 of the brainstem: a simplified method for understanding brainstem anatomy and brainstem vascular syndromes for the non-neurologist. Internal Medicine Journal 2005; 35: 263-266 [pubmed] Goldberg, S. Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple. MedMaster Series, 2000 Edition. [betterworldbooks] ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ links The ultimate Brainstem Rule diagram Brainstem [...]
Brainstem lesions
May 13, 2009 By 8 Comments
aka Neurological Mind-boggler 003 As promised here are some scenarios to try out Gates’ Brainstem Rules of 4 (helpful figures here): Scenario 1 You are examining a patient with sudden onset left-sided weakness. These are your clinical examination findings: weakness of the left upper and lower limbs, with sparing of the face. tongue deviation to [...]
Brainstem Rules of 4
May 11, 2009 By 5 Comments
Hands up who enjoyed learning the anatomy of the brainstem in medical school?
Hmm, thought so.
Leonardo Da Vinci first Anatomist
April 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
Some time around 1505 both men were given the task of painting murals of great Florentine battles for the new Council Chamber of Florence. The two geniuses were to work on opposing walls. This project promised to give to the world a direct comparison of their skills and artistic approaches. To the misfortune of us all, neither of the men finished their proposed work. Leonardo’s was to depict the Florentine-led victory over Milan at ‘The Battle of Anghiari’.
