Biography
Ricardo Rimini di Cave, Uruguayan biomedical scientist and sportsman (28 January 1908 – ?)
He participated in Olympic Games of Helsinki as fencer (1952)
Developed an apparatus for pleural washing and aspiration
Presentación de un aparato para lavado y aspiración pleural. Hoja Tisiologica 8, 1948
WITH J.L. DUOMARCO
Authored the first study about intra-abdominal pressure in human (1947)
Important studies on venous pressure in human
First to show clearly the abdomen behaves as a fluid-filled container with a flexible anterior abdominal wall (1947)
Suggested that venous collapse is a hydrostatic analogy of a waterfall (1954)