Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 198

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 198. Question 1 The BBC ran an article on sexist adverts. Drug companies were not immune to providing sexist ads as well. What was the substance advertised below with the title “You can’t set her free. But you can help her feel less anxious.”? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1538077255'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1538077255')) Oxazepam [Reference] BBC article for less medical sexist adverts. Question 2 What is the curve below and why do the Italian’s call it “legge del cuore”? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet950137157'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink950137157')) Commonly this is called the Frank Starling Curve However, neither Frank nor Starling were the first to describe the relationship between the end-diastolic volume and the regulation of cardiac output. The first formulation of the law was theorized by the Italian physiologist Dario Maestrini, who on December 13, 1914, started the first of 19 experiments that led him to formulate the “legge del cuore” – la...
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