Health and Safety

About Blind Insertion Airway Devices (BIAD's): with the importance of maintaining the airway and the sheer number of patients who experience airway compromise, several companies have created devices to ease the process of obtaining a…

Sydenham's chorea is a type of encephalitis that appears in individuals with rheumatic diseases, past or present, usually in childhood

Vertigo, exercises to calm it down: a very frequent symptom in those suffering from neck problems, vertigo can appear following traumatic events, even years after an accident, or cyclically according to changes in the weather

Benedikt syndrome (also called paramedian midbrain syndrome; in English Benedikt syndrome, or Benedikt's syndrome or paramedian midbrain syndrome), is a rare type of brain stroke that results in damage to the midbrain tegmentum: this is…

Paraplegia in medicine refers to a condition of diplegia in which the lower part of the body is affected by partial or complete motor paralysis and/or functional deficiency, associated with disturbance of sensation

The term electrosurgery refers to the use of high frequency, alternating electric current to produce heating in tissue

Rheumatoid arthritis (abbreviated 'RA'; in English 'rheumatoid arthritis', hence the acronym 'RA') is a chronic, ankylosing and progressive inflammatory polyarthritis with an autoimmune pathogenesis and unknown aetiology, mainly affecting…

Gaslighting can be a form of emotional abuse. It happens when someone – like a partner, parent, friend, or boss – challenges what you know is true and makes you question your beliefs and sanity

Medical science has identified certain symptoms of autism that may be early indicators of the pathology that should be paid close attention to

Croup is an illness of young children that results from routine infection of the airway. What would be little more than a benign cold in adults can be distressing for children due to the narrow airway that begins to close off with even…