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Nikolaizentrum Leipzig
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Publications (21)
Background:
Electrical injuries represent life-threatening emergencies. Evidence on differences between high (HVI) and low voltage injuries (LVI) regarding characteristics at presentation, rhabdomyolysis markers, surgical and intensive burn care and outcomes is scarce.
Methods:
Consecutive patients admitted to two burn centers for electrical inj...
The development of secondary abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is associated with multiple organ dysfunction. There is little information about the effects of decompressive laparotomy (DL) on respiratory function (RF) in burn patients developing ACS.
We retrospectively obtained data characterising RF from the database of an adult burn intensive...
Die Häufigkeit der leichteren Bissverletzungen ist nicht sicher abzuschätzen, da sich viele Patienten nicht in ärztliche Behandlung begeben oder konservativ therapiert werden. Komplexere Verletzungen gelangen zur operativen Versorgung und werden entsprechend den bekannten Konzepten für komplexe Handverletzungen versorgt. Bisswunden mit sekundärer I...
Background:
Although it was initially assumed that erythropoietin (EPO) was a hormone that only affected erythropoiesis, it has now been proposed that EPO plays an additional key role in the regulation of acute and chronic tissue damage.
Methods/design:
This is a large, prospective, randomized, double-blind, multi-center study, funded by the Ger...
Chronic wounds not only induce individual distress but also cause enormous and rapidly growing costs for our health care systems and society in general. The fastest growing groups of chronic wounds are Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU), due to the fact that the number of diabetics is growing worldwide. The pathophysiology of DFU is complex and necessitate...
Secondary abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is a severe complication in patients admitted to burn intensive care units (BICUs). Unlike patients with thermal burns, patients with toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) present with a different pathophysiology and usually require less fluid.
We reviewed our registry of adult patients presenting with TEN...
Introduction
The Comprehensive International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for Hand Conditions has been developed as a tool to describe functioning in individuals with hand conditions. The purpose of this study was to validate the ICF Core Set in a multicentre study in Germany.
Methods
We conducted a cross-sec...
The authors report a case of a 29-year-old male patient with severe burn injuries (54% TBSA) and inhalation injury. He developed a candidemia and a cutaneous zygomycotic superinfection with Rhizopus oryzae while he received burn intensive care. Despite aggressive surgery, sepsis persisted, and therapy was limited by uncontrollable coagulopathy and...
The authors report the case of a 29-year-old pregnant woman (2g1p) in the 16th week of gestation presenting with extensive toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). The cutaneous symptoms began at hands, feet, and in the mouth and developed during the course of 10 days to cover 75% of her TBSA, whereas total epidermolysis was present on more than 40% of he...
Fragestellung: In den Jahren 2004–2007 wurden 30 Patienten nach distaler Radiusfraktur durchschnittlich 10,6 Monate nach dem Unfall aufgrund starker Kraft- und Beweglichkeitsdefizite sowie Schmerzen vorgestellt, ohne dass bis dahin das Heilverfahren abgeschlossen werden konnte. Sie nahmen an einer intensiven stationären Handrehabilitation teil (dur...
We report a 20-year-old male who suffered smoke inhalation injury and burns covering 26% of his TBSA, including his face, dorsal chest, and both the arms. The Abbreviated Burn Severity Index was 5 (likelihood of survival 95%). He underwent burn surgery, requiring massive transfusion. Postoperatively, he appeared increasingly hyperthermic, showed re...
Although severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCARs), such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, are rare, they are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality.
The current knowledge regarding background, differential diagnoses, critical care and implications for inter-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) transport...
Controlled cryopreservation is an important method for storage of tissue grafts in skin banking, reproductive medicine and other domains. Although the availability of cryopreserved flexor tendons would be highly beneficial in reconstructive surgery, especially in complex reconstructions for which grafting material is limited, only a few studies hav...
Fungal colonization and infection is a common complication in burn patients. Patients who present with large amounts of burned body surface, impaired immune resistance and receive broad antibiotic therapy are at high risk for acquiring a fungal infection. Inadequate or delayed antifungal treatment due to the poor performance of diagnostic methods i...
Background
The lost guidewire in central venous catheterization is a commonly described complication. The percutaneous endovascular retrieval method is safe and has a very low complication rate.
Objectives
Guidewires extending to the inferior cava vein are usually retrieved via the femoral vein. Under special circumstances, femoral venous access m...
Our cases and the described evaluation of nationwide cases show that, although hot air sauna burns are rare, they do occur. In most cases, as emphasized by the survey, those burns occur alongside a loss of consciousness. Finally, the diminished perfusion of the skin leads to a disturbance of the cutaneous heat exchange. As a result, the heat effect...
Komplexverletzungen des Fußes werden v.a. bei polytraumatisierten Patienten häufig übersehen und führen dann zu bleibenden
schwerwiegenden Funktionsverlusten. Beim Vorliegen eines entsprechenden Unfallmechanismus sollte daher der Fuß in die Primärdiagnostik
einbezogen und initial eine klinische, nach Stabilisierung auch röntgenologische Diagnostik...
A 47-year-old man sustained a 31% TBSA burn injury. In spite of early escharectomy and mesh-graft-transplantation the patient suffered a septicaemic phase in the first week, which was treated by a specific antibiotic. Five weeks after the burn injury a cervical spondylodiscitis was diagnosed. Immediate wound debridement, ventral and dorsal spondylo...
