Topic of the Month July: Anaesthesia & Intensive Medicine

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The anaesthesist - the patients best friend since he can take away the pain. Without anaesthesia or pain therapy most treatments would not be possible, especially if one considers the critically ill. Therefore anaesthesia and intensive medicine are partly inseperable.

Since MEDICA.de concerns itself with Anaesthesia & Intensive Medicine in July, new research results from that area are introduced in the Topic of the Month.

An experimental therapy that combines an antibiotic with a synthetic anti-inflammatory drug, designed at the University of Virginia Health System, has shown early promise in dramatically reducing death from sepsis, a life-threatening infection that kills 210,000 Americans each year. - Sepsis: New Treatment May Reduce Death

Patients describe it as like being buried alive. The worse part is not the pain, they say, but the horror of being paralysed and yet totally aware of what the surgeon is doing to you. Now suffering like this could be greatly reduced with a "simple” awareness device. - Awareness During Surgery

An investigation of how blood flows through stents after opening clogged arteries has led a team of researchers to suggest that stents designed with thinner and fewer linkages may be the basis of a new generation of stents. - Stenting: Optimising Device Design

The University of Pittsburgh is one of five centers participating in a trial concerned with a new chest compression device to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of AutoPulse™. - Chest Compression: Effectiveness of Device to Be Tested

New articles (currently added): - Stroke: Patients Treated for Hypertension Against Guidelines
- Fluid Prolongs Life after Haemorrhagic Shock

Our Spotlight Anaesthesia & Intensive Medicine

Our Topics at a Glance - MEDICA.de's topics in 2004
- MEDICA.de's topics in 2003