A Spoonful of Eponyms Helps the Pathology Go Down: Using Food Eponyms and Visual Mnemonics in Preclinical Pathology Education.

Unlabelled: Food eponymophilia in medicine describes a phenomenon by which diseases or pathologies are named for food items, such as "oat cell carcinoma" or "coffee bean nucleus." Some argue that these metaphors enrich medical education by providing familiar analogies to communicate pathology that is otherwise difficult to describe. Others argue that these metaphors are esoteric, burdensome, culturally irrelevant, and outdated.

Sort, Assess, Life-Saving Intervention, Triage With Drone Assistance in Mass Casualty Simulation: Analysis of Educational Efficacy.

Introduction Mass casualty incident (MCI) simulation and triage are educational methods used to provide high fidelity training to first response teams. Simulation and triage need to be as effective as possible to train professionals for true emergencies involving mass casualty. Although MCI simulation and triage have been used in the pre-professional setting (i.

Hyperkalemic Emergency: When You Have Taken a Few Too Many KCl Tablets.

Hyperkalemia is a common clinical problem that varies significantly in severity and indications for treatment. Hyperkalemic emergency exists when there are clinical signs or symptoms, including cardiac conduction abnormalities. The combination of nebulized albuterol and insulin with glucose is most effective for managing clinically significant hyperkalemia.