Alexander Brinkmann

TL;DR: The change in hospital funding with diagnosis related groups (DRG), medical advances as well as demographic changes will call for new quantitative and qualitative standards imposed on German hospitals.

TL;DR: Eight patients having refractory in-hospital cardiac arrest were treated with vasopressin after standard therapies, including intravenous administration of epinephrine, had failed, and a supraventricular rhythm with a palpable carotid pulse was recorded.

TL;DR: It is concluded that vasopressin improves vital organ perfusion during ventricular fibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation and seems to be at least as effective as epinephrine in this pig model of ventricularfibrillation.

TL;DR: If conventional monitoring does not advance the management of critically ill patients, monitoring of perfusion, oxygenation and function of the liver and the gut may provide new fundamental goals of diagnosis and treatment.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated whether therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)-guided antibiotic therapy improves outcomes in sepsis and found no significant difference in mean SOFA score between patients with and without TDM.