A Message From Haney Welcome to ResusNation #139 Ancient Egyptians Invented This Procedure, Then a Renaissance Doctor Mastered It! In 1546, Italian physician Antonio Musa Brasavola achieved an impressive medical feat, performing and meticulously documenting the first successful human tracheostomy. Faced with a patient near death from severe throat obstruction due to an abscess, Brasavola c...

A Message From "él Haney"   Welcome to ResusNation #138   The Cover-Up That Infected Hemophiliacs With HIV (And Why No One Went to Jail) Forget the conspiracy theories—this real-life horror show happened in plain sight. In the 70s and 80s, thousands of hemophiliacs worldwide were handed a death sentence by the very “miracle cure” meant to save them: blood clotting factors (Factor VIII and ...

A Message From Haney And They Thought It Was Just Indigestion... Boerhaave syndrome is a rare but critical medical condition characterized by a spontaneous, full-thickness tear or rupture of the esophagus. This sudden perforation is almost always the result of a massive surge in internal pressure, typically caused by severe or forceful vomiting and retching. When the rupture occurs, acidic...