Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS
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The national German hand hygiene campaign is implementing the WHO patient safety initiative "Clean Care is Safer Care". After 6 years over 1400 health care institutions are participating in the campaign on a voluntary basis. The implementation of the multimodal intervention concept including improvement of alcohol based hand rub availability, the introduction of 2 surveillance methods and of the WHO "My 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene Model" in those health care facilities, participating for several years, increased median hand hygiene compliance by 11% and alcohol based hand rub availability by 61%.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jan 2014
Review[Coagulation disorders in the context of cardiac surgery - Clinical basics and mechanism based therapy].
Intra- and postoperative bleeding disorders are common in cardiac surgery. The etiology of perioperative coagulopathy frequently becomes apparent as a combination of several acquired and inherited disorders. ⋯ Point-of-care-systems can provide fast bed-sided analysis, which contribute to early diagnosis and intervention. Individual and regularly revised algorithms, adapted to the individualized institutional infrastructure, may facilitate resource-saving treatment of perioperative coagulopathy.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jan 2014
Review[Nausea and vomiting after anaesthesia for children - Big problems for little patients].
Postoperative nausea and vomiting are undesirable and unpleasant side effects after surgery and anaesthesia associated with delayed oral intake and postoperative recovery, and impaired parental satisfaction. Since current modalities against PONV are cheap, highly effective, and almost free from relevant side-effects - providing contraindications are appropriately considered -, recommendations tend to move away from risk-score guided administration of antiemetic towards a more liberal administration policy or even favour routine administration to children undergoing general anaesthesia for surgery combined with total-intrevanous anaesthesia using propfol and reduction of perioperative opioid administration.