Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jun 2013
Case Reports[Case report. Leukocytosis in the course of Clostridium difficile infection].
Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) are increasing in incidence and severity, amongst other reasons because of the increasing spread of hypervirulent strains. Leukocytosis is a sign of severe CDI and is predictive for a complicated course. ⋯ Leukemia-related therapy patterns were not needed. Notably, in none of the patients a hypervirulent strain was isolated.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jun 2013
Review[The Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology--preoperative assessment and preparation].
The Helsinki Declaration offers guidelines for the warranty and improvement of patient safety in Anaesthesiology. The assessment of elective patients and their preoperative optimization plays a key role herein. ⋯ Our recommendations aim at elective adult patients planned for non-cardiac and non-lung-resecting surgery and stress the importance of gathering information from patients, performing physical examinations and arranging further diagnostic customized upon these findings only in contrast to routine testing. They shall spark the formulation or improvement of center-based, interdisciplinary standards of procedure in order to fulfill our great responsibility for the perioperative care of our patients.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jun 2013
[In-hospital emergency care of patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest].
In German hospitals there is a growing need to offer a high quality in-hospital emergency care, because of the increasing age of the patients and to the shortening of hospital stay, as well as the increasingly complex medical procedures increases the risk of emergencies. The in-hospital emergency care should not be different from the pre-hospital emergency care concerning both the training of personnel, as well as the equipment of the team. ⋯ To ensure high quality in-hospital resuscitation and emergency treatment training and equipment of the emergency teams should be optimized and a comprehensive documentation and analysis tool should be established. For the latter task the German Resuscitation Registry will offer a high sophisticated in-hospital-emergency data collecting and analysis tool.