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Review Biography Historical Article
Ludwig Guttmann's academic relationship with post-war Germany.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann's pioneering work in the treatment of spinal injury not only improved the care for patients with paraplegia up to now but revolutionized basic principles of neurorehabilitation. A wide selection of publications honors the personal and academic life of this singular German neurologist and neurosurgeon of Jewish descent. ⋯ Surprisingly, after the Second World War, the psychiatrist Friedrich Panse, who had been a member of the Nazi party, initiated Guttmann's academic rehabilitation up to his nomination as emeritus professor of Cologne University in 1964. The present article recounts the difficult academic restitution and poses the question why Guttmann sought to re-establish connections to Germany, a country that had expelled him so harshly some decades before.
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Critical care medicine · Aug 2019
Observational StudyPredictive Accuracy of Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for Hospital Mortality Decreases With Increasing Comorbidity Burden Among Patients Admitted for Suspected Infection.
Evaluate the accuracy of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment tool to predict mortality across increasing levels of comorbidity burden. ⋯ The accuracy of quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment to predict hospital mortality diminishes with increasing comorbidity burden. Patients with comorbidities may have baseline abnormalities in quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment variables that reduce predictive accuracy. Additional research is needed to better understand quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment performance across different comorbid conditions with modification that incorporates the context of changes to baseline variables.
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Multiple carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) classifications have been proposed. However, they lacked predictive factors for the clinical presentation, natural history, and hemorrhagic risk. Our aim was to externally validate a new classification according to venous drainage (i.e., the Thomas classification [TC]) to assess its relationship with symptoms, endovascular treatment, and outcomes. ⋯ The TC provided useful information regarding the fistula anatomy and venous hemodynamics, which correlated with the clinical symptoms and treatment strategy.
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In the publication of this article [1], there are two errors in contributing author affiliations. This has now been included in this correction article.