Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 246

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 246 Readers can subscribe to FFFF RSS or subscribe to the FFFF weekly EMAIL Question 1 What is so special about this watch and who invented the concept? + Reveal the funtabulous answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1125060832'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1125060832')) It is the doplr physician’s pulse watch. Pulsometer: As the second hand passes the 12 o’clock mark, take the pulse and count 15 beats. Read the corresponding number on the dial at the 15th beat. Asthmometer: As the second hand passes the 6 o’clock mark, count five breaths and read the corresponding number on the dial at the fifth breath. Robert Graves (1796-1853) had long been heralded as the uncredited inventor of the second-hand on watches. However his role was only to extol the virtues of the second hand in the accurate assessment of the pulse in the clinical setting… It was English physician Sir John Floyer (1649-1734), in 1707 who invented the pulsometer watch and therefore the seconds hand. Floyer was renowned for his work on the study of the pulse and believed understanding a patient’s pulse was fund...
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