Der Anaesthesist
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Statistically, the chance of a patient to win a court case because of a legally insufficient informed consent is approximately 70%. In Austria the judgment whether the anesthesia-related risk of a patient was correctly addressed depends generally on the opinion of a certified expert court witness (CW). ⋯ In future new methods of knowledge transfer to the patients should be developed. In addition, a standardization of the evaluation criteria for CWs in terms of improvement of legal certainty would be desirable.
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After analyzing the existing documentation protocol for the emergency room (ER), the department of anesthesiology of the Medical University of Göttingen (UMG) developed a new department-specific ER protocol. ⋯ The structured and elaborated documentation was limited to the target of two sides and succeeds in incorporating trauma patients as well as non-trauma patients in the ER.