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)