Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS
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In 2009 the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Prevention of Infections (CHHPI) at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) published recommendations on the personnel and organisational prerequisites for the prevention of nosocomial infections. Emphasis was placed on the tasks of all members of professional groups who belong to or work closely with a team of hygiene specialists in an institution for outpatient or inpatient medical care. ⋯ The already existing shortage of hygiene specialists, and especially of hospital hygiene specialists, is thereby further intensified. Thus there are initiatives to provide physicians working in hospitals with further training in hygiene so that they can take over the functions of a hospital hygiene specialist.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jul 2011
Review[Patient blood management (part 2). Practice: the 3 pillars].
Patient blood management (PBM) is a patient-specific multidisciplinary, multimodal, evidence-based concept to appropriately conserve and manage a patient's own blood as a vital resource. PBM is based on 3 pillars: the first is the optimization of the patient's endogenous red cell mass, the second is the minimization of bleeding and blood loss and the third involves harnessing and optimizing the patient-specific physiological tolerance of anemia, including adopting more restrictive transfusion thresholds. ⋯ PBM is applicable to surgical and medical patients. The application of PBM systematically reduces the impact of 3 major contributors to negative outcome: anemia, blood loss and transfusion.