Articles: critical-care.
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Langenbecks Arch Chir Suppl Kongressbd · Jan 1996
[General automated documentation and performance data on the surgical intensive care unit--the theoretical concept of the Regensburg Surgical University Clinic].
Documentation is becoming an ever more time-consuming task due to the need to document increasing ICU productivity, quality management and cost-assessment data. Automatic charting of on-line monitoring data, therapeutic-device data, clinical laboratory data, microbiological data, radiological data and other data reduces documentation time significantly. ⋯ Not only the physician, but also nurses and physiotherapists are able to benefit from these advantages. Our concept, SURGIC (Department of Surgery, University Regensburg, Germany, Intensive Care), stands for: widely automated documentation, work orientation, including physicians, nurses' and physiotherapists' tasks, minimal dataset for simple use and perfect overview, costs assessments, scientific dataset, SICU PDMS as a part of the clinical information system, and professional support by a software-house is necessary.
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Aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of early intubation at the scene on the outcome of polytraumatized patients with lung-contusion. ⋯ Early intubation at the scene can reduce the inhospital-time, the time at the ICU and the complications. In this way it becomes an important factor of cost-reduction. Therefore early intubation at the scene must become a standard for all patients with lung-contusion.