Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 226

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 226. Question 1 Between 1995 and 2000 the CDC in the USA reported 15 to 18% of cases of tetanus in which particular subset of the population? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1602238564'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1602238564')) Intravenous Drug Users, from contaminated drugs. [Reference] Question 2 Which famous author developed a new shunt for hydrocephalus when his 4 month old son was hit by a taxi in New York? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet616874388'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink616874388')) Roald Dahl (developer of the Wade-Dahl-Till valve 1962). Theo suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting in secondary hydrocephalus and back in the UK his ventricle-atrial shunt kept blocking the Holter valve. Dahl, determined to find a solution contacted Stanley Wade a toy maker specialising in small hydraulic pumps. Meanwhile the care of his son was handed to Kenneth Till, a neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street in London who took Dahl and Wade into theatre to show them the process. They both soon realised that brain tissue ...
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