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He was therefore well placed to hand on a written account of what was of permanent value in the teaching Kauko VAINIO of the early pioneers and yet well qualified to lead in the advance, under antiseptic precautions, of 1913–1989 open operative correction of deformity. Further- more he stood firm by the definition of orthope- Kauko Vainio a Finnish orthopedic surgeon of dic surgery as the surgery of the entire locomotor outstanding international achievement, was born system. By his incomparable textbook of 1912, he on May 1, 1913 in Sääminki, Finland. The world- helped to raise the prestige of British orthopedic wide application of orthopedic surgery in the surgery. In 1956 he was appointed first senior lecturer of orthopedic rheumatology at the 1. Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Since graduating from the Helsinki University Surgeons of England (1930) 2, 438. Bristol, printed Medical School in 1939, Vainio’s early pro- and published for the Royal College of Surgeons by fessional life was dominated by military field John Wright & Sons Ltd 4. Tubby AH (1896) Deformities: a Treatise on surgery, ultimately as a major during Finland’s Orthopedic Surgery. Tubby AH (1912) Deformities Including Diseases followed by the postwar hardship. Tubby AH (1920) A Consulting Surgeon in the Near the Orthopedic Hospital of the Invalid Foundation East. Ltd with a residency at the Anderson Orthopedic Hos- pital in the United States in 1949. Long before the current challenges of the growing organized international university exchange programs and projects, Vainio made unbelievable efforts to- ward a better understanding and relationship between colleagues around the orthopedic world, with special reference to his life’s work—the operative treatment of the rheumatoid limb as an integrated part of the overall plan for the rheuma- toid patient. He is said to have established a 341 Who’s Who in Orthopedics school of about 1,000 residents and visitors from 1939. From 1938 to 1939, Verbiest studied neu- Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, rosurgery in Paris. The outbreak of World War II Israel, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, forced him to return to Utrecht where, because of and the United States at his department in Heinola wartime conditions, he was appointed head of the until his retirement in 1975. After the war, Ver- Anniversary Vainio Meeting in Heinola was biest became well known for his research, for his attended by 50 international specialists in clinical acumen, and for his surgical skills. He was During his career Verbiest received many a man with innumerable friends and spare-time honors from his own government and from the activities. At a rather early stage in his orthope- international neurosurgical community. He is, dic career, Vainio drew fundamental guidelines perhaps, best remembered for his description of for the operative treatment of the rheumatoid spinal stenosis. One of the classic symptoms of deformities of the foot based on a thorough clas- spinal stenosis, intermittent claudication of the sification of the typical abnormalities and their spine, is called Verbiest’s syndrome. Jean VERBRUGGE 1896–1964 Henk VERBIEST The Belgian medical world, and especially its 1909–1997 orthopedic surgeons, mourn the passing of an eminent surgeon, a good man, and an incompara- Henk Verbiest was born in Rotterdam in 1909. After brilliant intermediary studies at student, Verbiest did research in pigeons on Antwerp, he graduated and gained his degree, in several neurological problems. After graduation, 1921, as a doctor of medicine, surgeon, and obste- Verbiest worked in the department of neurology trician from the University of Brussels, with the until 1937. He was almost immediately this period, he was granted a doctoral degree in awarded a scholarship as a Fellow of the Com- 342 Who’s Who in Orthopedics mittee for Relief in Belgium (CRB Educational stances that could and, indeed, would lead to Foundation) and spent 2 years, up to 1924, at the forgiveness. Instead, almost fessor Putti in Italy and Professor Leriche in embarrassed, he would say “I do not think that I France. As early as 1925, he started his career at would have set about it that way.

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London: Imperial College Press, 2003: 249-251 Cross References Anhidrosis; Anisocoria; Hyperhidrosis; Light-near pupillary dissocia- tion; Pseudo-argyll robertson pupil Holmes’s Tremor Holmes’s tremor, also known as rubral tremor, or midbrain tremor, has been defined as a rest and intention tremor, of frequency < 4. The rest tremor may resemble parkinsonian tremor, and is exacerbated by sus- tained postures and voluntary movements. Hence there are features of rest, postural and kinetic (intention) tremor. Once attributed to lesions of the red nucleus (hence “rubral”), the anatomical substrate is now thought to be interruption of fibers of the superior cerebellar peduncle (hence “midbrain”) carrying cerebellothalamic and/or cerebello-olivary projec- tions; lesions of the ipsilateral cerebellar dentate nucleus may produce a similar clinical picture. If a causative lesion is defined, there is typically a delay before tremor appearance (4 weeks to 2 years). Brain 2001; 124: 720-730 - 155 - H Hoover’s Sign Deuschl G, Bain P, Brin M and an Ad Hoc Scientific Committee. Movement Disorders 1998; 13(suppl3): 2-23 Cross References Tremor Hoover’s Sign Hoover’s sign may be used to help differentiate organic from functional hemiplegia or monoplegia. It is based on the fact that when a recum- bent patient attempts to lift one leg, downward pressure is felt under the heel of the other leg, hip extension being a normal synergistic or synkinetic movement. The finding of this synkinetic movement, detected when the heel of the supposedly paralyzed leg presses down on the examiner’s palm, constitutes Hoover’s sign: no increase in pressure is felt beneath the heel of a paralyzed leg in an organic hemiplegia. In addition, the synkinetic hip extension movement is accentuated when attempting to raise a contralateral paretic leg, whereas in functional weakness it is abolished. Practical Neurology 2001; 1: 50-53 Cross References “Arm drop”; Babinski’s trunk-thigh test; Functional weakness and sensory disturbance; Synkinesia, Synkinesis Horner’s Syndrome Horner’s syndrome is defined by a constellation of clinical findings, most usually occurring unilaterally, viz. The first two mentioned signs are usually the most evident and bring the patient to medical attention; the latter two are usually less evident or absent. Additional features which may be seen include: ● Heterochromia iridis, different color of the iris (if the lesion is con- genital) ● Elevation of the inferior eyelid due to a weak inferior tarsal mus- cle (“reverse ptosis,” or “upside-down ptosis”). Horner’s syndrome results from impairment of ocular sympa- thetic innervation. The sympathetic innervation of the eye consists of a long, three neurone, pathway, extending from the diencephalon down - 156 - Hyperacusis H to the cervicothoracic spinal cord, then back up to the eye via the supe- rior cervical ganglion and the internal carotid artery, and the oph- thalmic division of the trigeminal (V) nerve. A wide variety of pathological processes, spread across a large area, may cause a Horner’s syndrome, although many examples remain idiopathic despite intensive investigation. Recognized causes include: Brainstem/cervical cord disease (vascular, demyelination, syringomyelia) Pancoast tumor Malignant cervical lymph nodes Carotid aneurysm, carotid artery dissection Involvement of T1 fibers, e. London: Imperial College Press, 2003: 252-255 Cross References Anhidrosis; Anisocoria; Enophthalmos; Miosis; Plexopathy; Ptosis; Radiculopathy Hoyt-Spencer Sign This name is given to the triad of findings characteristic of chronic optic nerve compression, especially due to spheno-orbital optic nerve sheath meningiomas: Optociliary shunt vessels Disc pallor Visual loss “Hung-Up” Reflexes - see WOLTMAN’S SIGN Hutchinson’s Pupil Hutchinson’s pupil is unilateral pupillary dilatation ipsilateral to a supratentorial (usually extrinsic) space-occupying lesion, which may be the earliest sign of raised intracranial pressure. It reflects involve- ment of peripheral pupilloconstrictor fibers in the oculomotor (III) nerve, perhaps due to compression on the margin of the tentorium. Cross References Anisocoria; Mydriasis; Oculomotor (III) nerve palsy Hyperacusis Hyperacusis is an abnormal loudness of sounds, especially low tones, due to paralysis of the stapedius muscle, whose normal reflex function is to damp conduction across the ossicular chain of the middle ear. This most commonly occurs with lower motor neurone facial (VII) nerve (Bell’s) palsy, located proximal to the nerve to stapedius. Ageusia - 157 - H Hyperalgesia may also be present if the chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve is involved. Reduction or absence of the stapedius reflex may be tested using the stethoscope loudness imbalance test: with a stethoscope placed in the patients ears, a vibrating tuning fork is placed on the bell. Normally the perception of sound is symmetrical, but sound lateralizes to the side of facial paresis if the attenuating effect of the stapedius reflex is lost. Cross References Ageusia; Bell’s palsy; Facial paresis Hyperalgesia Hyperalgesia is the exaggerated perception of pain from a stimulus which is normally painful (cf. This may result from sensitization of nociceptors (paradoxically this may sometimes be induced by morphine) or abnormal ephaptic cross-excitation between primary afferent fibers. Cross References Allodynia; Dysesthesia; Hyperpathia Hyperekplexia Hyperekplexia (literally, to jump excessively) is an involuntary move- ment disorder in which there is a pathologically exaggerated startle response, usually to sudden unexpected auditory stimuli, but some- times also to tactile (especially trigeminal) and visual stimuli.

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Although his professional activities to the hip and the work to be done even though had been lightened to a small degree for the past the anatomical parts were grossly distorted from several years pregnancy announcement cards 20 mg tamoxifen order with amex, on Monday menstrual headaches buy cheap tamoxifen on-line, June 6 menstruation through the ages 20 mg tamoxifen order amex, he had made the original process or by previous attempts to his usual rounds at the Hospital of the University correct them. His assistants quickly realized that of Pennsylvania, visited patients on whom he had this dexterity was due to the fact that not only had recently operated, and exchanged his usual greet- he been through this exercise many times before, ings with other members of the hospital staff. Although his manual devoted his full energy to what he loved, the prac- skill was admired by his assistants and associates, tice of orthopedic surgery. Colonna PC: Congenital Dislocation of the Hip in His rounds of ward and private patients alike were Older Subjects. Colonna PC: A New Type of Reconstruction Oper- operative and postoperative management and it ation for Old Ununited Fracture of the Neck of the was here that he was most effective in his teach- Femur. Surgical experiences were never dramatized 1935 but were always properly placed in relation to an entire program of physical, mental, and economic rehabilitation. Colonna was a member of a number of medical societies, local, national, and interna- tional. In 1955, he was elected President of the American Orthopedic Association and presided at the annual meeting of that association when it met that year in Banff. He was a founding member of the Orthopedic Research Society and remained vitally interested in its proceedings. Colonna stressed the broad, general principles upon which all surgery is 79 Who’s Who in Orthopedics Sir Astley Paston COOPER Frederic Jay COTTON 1768–1841 1869–1938 Sir Astley Paston Cooper was the leading surgeon of London in his day. He was probably John Frederic Jay Cotton was born in Newport, Rhode Hunter’s most prominent pupil and Guy’s Hospi- Island, and educated at Harvard. Although Paré his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1894, he studied described fractures of the hip, his observations bacteriology in New York and spent 2 years in the other than diagnostic were not contributive. His career Cooper not only described the fracture but added was spent in Boston where he was a professor of the classic discussion of its major problem, the surgery at Tufts College Medical School. I was Chief of Surgery at Walter Reed Army With subsequent editions of his long-lasting Hospital. His major interest throughout his career book, A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures, was in injuries of the musculoskeletal system. He Cooper would add notes from his very popular actively collaborated with Charles L. An accom- plished artist, Cotton supplied many illustrations for his book. He promoted the use of impaction in the treatment of fractures of the neck of the femur in both the nonoperative and operative methods. The publication of his paper on the use of fascia lata for the reconstruction of ligamen- tous injuries of the knee in 1934, only 4 years before his death, indicates that his interest in mus- culoskeletal injuries never waned. As a founding member of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the first Board of Regents of the College, and founding member of the Committee on Fractures, later the Com- mittee on Trauma, of the College, he had an important influence on the standards of treatment 80 Who’s Who in Orthopedics of fractures in the United States during the early Mark had a wide-ranging interest in all facets decades of this century. The author of more than 250 papers, he popularized and wrote extensively on proximal tibial osteotomy. He performed the first Food and Drug Administration approved total hip arthroplasty with cement in the United States, in 1969. One of his major interests was the nurturing of orthopedic surgery in the Third World. As a member of Orthopedics Overseas and Care- Medico, he served in Tunisia, Indonesia, Saint Lucia, and Afghanistan and taught in the medical school in Honduras. He served on the board of trustees of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery for longer than any other individual, including as its chairman. He was editor of the Year Book of Orthopedics; president of the American Orthopedic Associa- tion, the Hip Society, the International Hip Society, and the Orthopedic Research and Educa- tion Foundation; and an honorary member of the British Orthopedic Association and the Canadian Orthopedic Association. Despite all of his accomplishments, Mark still Mark Bingham COVENTRY found time to enjoy life away from his practice. Coventry, a general surgeon, was one ming with his family at his summer home in of the founders of the Duluth Clinic.

Ben, 50 years: Yet, in our experience, the teaching methods often used in the later years do not generally demand higher levels of intellectual performance and personal involvement. Thompson was president of the Russell Hibbs Society in 1950, president of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons in 1961, a founding member of the Hip Society, and vice president of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons from 1966 to 1968. Chest and limb physical therapy is important to clear secretions and maintain limb mobility. When administered in normal doses (10–15 mg=kg, PO or PR), acetaminophen has very few serious side effects.

Spike, 61 years: As such, you will be taught how to see and manage patients on your own in order to aid the smooth running of the firm. Table 1 Evaluation of a First Febrile Seizure Sometimes Usually Always History X Physical and neurological examination X Lumbar puncture >18 months 12–18 months <12 months EEG No Blood studies No Imaging No Counseling of parents X 58 Freeman The most important therapy for a child after a first febrile seizure is counseling the distraught parents. Record in chronological order the dates of all office vis- its, hospitalizations or immunizations, and any laboratory and diagnostic tests performed (with their findings). Mechanical stimulation is provided by piston-like motion of the stapes bone, which is the last bone in the middle-ear chain and is the smallest bone in your body.

Tizgar, 43 years: Standardised test scenarios and The great advantage of a multidisciplinary ALS course is that the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who will uniform assessment criteria are used to ensure that every be working together as a resuscitation team, train and practise candidate (independent of course centre) reaches the same together. One paddle should be placed over the 8 apex of the heart and one beneath the right clavicle. This was only one of many such awards School of Medicine and began his work on the that he received. About this time he and his father went to several distinguished surgeons and anatomists.

Ugolf, 49 years: The client’s experience of health care may be very different from the one in which you are working. As the medical director of a western Blue Cross plan said, “When people plateau in terms of their functioning, then health insurers get reluctant to pay for something that’s not going to have a significant benefit over time. Because of its emphasis on acute-care hospitalization, Medicare covers home-based occupational therapists “only if they are part of a plan that also includes intermittent skilled nursing care, physical ther- apy, or speech-language pathology services” (42 C. He succeeded Beveridge Moore, about whom he often spoke and whom he greatly admired.

Leon, 54 years: He rowed against the stream of surgical inter- Clopton HAVERS vention in many orthopedic problems, and his conservative approach to bone and joint disease 1657–1702 was uniquely his own. Rosenbaum and I are not authorities on this subject; we can only tell you what has worked for us. Results of ongoing in vivo, in vitro and clinical research will hopefully clarify the differential roles of various etiologies and seizures themselves, as well as offering new opportunities and approaches for neuroprotection in these vulnerable infants. They have maintained his (3) augmenting the power of the horizontal steer- high standards at Nilratan Sircar Medical College ers by transferring the tendon of the latissimus Hospital in Calcutta.

Varek, 58 years: Five years later a major randomised controlled trial of exercise on prescription in Newcastle found that ‘short term increases in physical activity were not maintained at one year follow up and even the most intensive intervention was ineffective in promoting long- term adherence to increased physical activity’ (Harland et al. The question set by Prozac in the context of the inflation of psychological illness is—what proportion of the population should be on it? If due to retinal ischemia, hemeralopia may be accompanied by neovascularization of the retina. The knee is flexed to 120°,the notcher inserted into the anteromedial portal,and the supero- lateral aspect of the tunnel is notched (Fig.

Volkar, 63 years: Unfortunately, it also had an ingredient that was essentially the same as a diuretic and, taken on a daily basis as she was doing, would deplete her body of essential minerals and electrolytes like potassium. For just as the mind has the ability to heal the person, under this alternative model, it can also make one sick (McGuire 1987; McGuire and Kantor 1987). When osteotomy is carried out at an early stage and prevents progression of collapse, this could prevent disease dete- rioration or maintain hip function without clinical symptoms even more than 25 years after operation. Remember that it is commonplace for articles for peer-reviewed journals to be returned for re­ drafting, and editors may return your chapter or book with queries or cor­ rections requiring your attention.

Gonzales, 37 years: The medicalisation of alcohol has, in short, resulted in a dramatic inflation of the scale of the problem, justifying a more systematic intervention in the drinking habits of society. Tables help to organise information and illustrate patterns for the reader. He was only par- 327 Who’s Who in Orthopedics Georg Friedrich Louis Ernest Adolph Gustav Gottfried STROMEYER STRÜMPELL 1804–1876 1853–1925 Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer of Hanover, at Ernest Adolph Gustav Gottfried Strümpell of times professor at various German universities Leipzig published a two-volume edition of the and surgeon general of the Hanoverian army, was Lehrbuch der Speciellen Pathology and Therapie one of the most powerful influences in develop- der inneren Krankheiten in 1883–1884. In some patients, airway obstruction may be particularly noticeable during expiration, due to the flap-valve effect of the soft palate against the nasopharyngeal tissues, which occurs in snoring.

Quadir, 60 years: As we have said all along, your con- dition is most likely just a mystery in need of a solution. The months that followed were hind his wife, two sons and two daughters. His dynamic personality had become one of the features of recent meetings of the British Orthopedic Association, of which he was elected an honorary member in 1945. If you are interested, you should consult the Guided Reading at the end of the chapter.

Iomar, 26 years: This to drain the pus from the skin sores to prevent the spread of the allowed the use of fluorescent labeled monoclonal antibodies infection further over the surface of the skin. Too often disabled people fail to receive a • DIAL (Disabled Information Advice Line) (Name of town)—A service that would be of benefit or they may feel overwhelmed voluntary organisation operating in some areas and not in control of their own lives, with consequent damage • Disability Rights Handbook (Price £11. Respiratory function should be monitored by measuring the oxygen saturation, vital capacity, and arterial blood gases. He became a leader early in his career and tled “Compression-Plate Fixation in Acute was the model of a true “southern gentleman.

Sivert, 57 years: Should this be unsuccessful, a second shock at the same energy level may prove effective because the Electrode position transthoracic impedance is reduced by repeated shocks. These are to test your pattern of thinking rather than your knowledge, so do not be alarmed. X After having conducted an interview or a focus group, it is useful to complete a summary form which con- tains details about the interview. There are no associated neurological abnor- malities, and no identified neurological or otorhinolaryngological cause.

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