Christoph H R Wiese

..To determine the international recommendations and current practices for the treatment and prevention of palliative emergencies. The primary goal of the study was to gather information from experts on their nationally practised concepts...

..Aim of the study was to evaluate experiences of general practitioners concerning advance directives and palliative emergency sheets...

..The aim of this investigation was to encourage a discussion concerning the integration of palliative care aspects into general medical treatment...

..The aim of this article is to discuss the model of age rationing in the context of an optimized use of resources in the healthcare system...

..Based on published literature recommendations concerning the treatment of patients after cessation of resuscitation and reasons for the Lazarus phenomenon are discussed...

..Moreover, mental strain of emergency medical staff in paediatric medical emergencies and end-of-life care will be discussed...

..Care aspects of outpatient palliative-care teams involve the medical, psychological, and spiritual needs of patients and their caregivers. The objective of our study was to examine the post-mortal bereavement of family caregivers...

..Prehospital emergency physicians may be confronted with exacerbation of pain in cancer patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of prehospital emergency physicians in training concerning cancer pain therapy...

..The purpose of the study was to identify EPs' knowledge about ethical and end-of-life decisions and their legal education and experiences concerning advance directives...

..The goals of this study were to discuss cooperation between emergency medical and palliative care structures to optimize the quality of care in emergencies involving palliative care patients...

..The aim of this study was to present the current integration of anesthesiology departments into palliative care activities in Germany...

..The authors surveyed different groups of physicians in Germany about their specific knowledge of cancer pain management...

..For this, a "strengths", "weaknesses", "opportunities", and "threats" (SWOT) analysis is used. This display is an example of an exemplary anaesthetic department...

..Quality measurement concerning the therapy of chronic pain diseases is an interaction of several quality and outcome parameters. Furthermore patients' aims concerning his individual pain treatment must be taken into account...

..Possibilities for an effective structure of palliative medical care systems will be discussed in order to optimize patient care....

..We present a case study to discuss such legal and ethical specifics...

..The aim of the present investigation was to provide information about the strategic and therapeutic approach employed by EMTs in outpatient palliative care patients in cardiac arrest...

..Accordingly, pre-hospital emergency physicians today are more likely to be involved in out-of-hospital emergency treatment of palliative care patients with advanced disease...

..In 2005, the European Resuscitation Council and the American Heart Association published new guidelines for Advanced Life Support. One of the points was to reduce the time without chest compressions in the first phase of cardiac arrest...

..Till now, there have been no relevant concepts for emergency care of palliative care patients for their specific symptoms...

..In a manikin study, we evaluated whether using the laryngeal tube instead of endotracheal intubation for airway management during cardiac arrest could reduce the "no flow time"...

..After placement and dose-finding our patient was discharged from hospital and further treatment occurred at home...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate whether these standards can be met by PSRs working in the area of pain medicine in terms of their level of education and knowledge of pain topics...

..As the postulated mechanism of action, the so-called "lipid sink" effect may depend on the lipophilicity of LAs. In this study, we investigated whether lipid effects differ with regard to the administered LAs...

..This improvement was maintained at 1-year follow-up. This is the first report of development of glossopharyngeal neuralgia after resection of a glossopharyngeal schwannoma...

..For those persons, different supraglottic airway devices are recommended by the ERC. The present investigation deals with the application of the laryngeal tube disposable (LT-D) during pre-hospital resuscitation by paramedics...

..The integration of anaesthesiological expertise into palliative medicine departments and vice versa can be a great opportunity for both medical departments and therefore represents a worthwhile engagement...

..Further information and training are necessary to amenable EPs to provide adequate patient-oriented care to palliative care patients and their relatives in emergency situations...

..We evaluated the hypothesis that utilization of the LTS-D could reduce the NFT compared to bag-mask ventilation (BMV) during simulated cardiac arrest in a single rescuer manikin study...

..We evaluated in a manikin study the influence on NFT using the single use laryngeal tube with suction option (LTS-D) compared to single use I-gel for emergency airway management...