Der Anaesthesist
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This article has its roots in the consternation of head anesthetists over the loss of colleagues. Anesthesia, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and pain therapy has lost too many first class colleagues through suicide, addiction, severe depression and other causes. It is time to direct attention not exclusively to patients but also to apply an important occupational principle in the rescue service and intensive care medicine to the profession of anesthetists: Every life counts. The following article supplies information on the frequency, methods and possible reasons for suicide by physicians and suggestions for the prevention of suicide as well as treatment of physicians who are at risk of suicide will be presented.
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Critical care medicine plays an important role for the medical and economic success of hospitals. Knowledge and implementation of recent relevant studies are prerequisites for high quality intensive care medicine. The aim of the present manuscript is to present an overview of the most important publications in intensive care medicine in 2009 and comment on their clinical relevance. ⋯ New trends are bedside echocardiography and telemedicine. Unfortunately, a magic bullet has not been identified last year. The focus is still on team education and guideline-assisted therapy.