Jürgen Peters

TL;DR: It is suggested that treating tracheal injuries conservatively by placing an artificial airway under bronchoscopic guidance may be effective and offers a convenient starting position for secondary surgical repair in selected patients when conservative treatment fails.

TL;DR: During orthotopic liver transplantation, prothrombin time and activated partial prothROMbin time can be reliably determined by the Hemochron device, while thrombelastometry allows assessment of platelet count and fibrinogen concentration.

TL;DR: A novel model also incorporating extrapulmonary variables, the PRESET-Score is proposed, which predicts mortality much better than previous scores and therefore is a more precise choice for decision support in ARDS patients to be placed on ECMO.

TL;DR: While both intravenous as well as inhaled lidocaine attenuate reflex bronchoconstriction significantly, lidOCaine plasma concentrations are significantly lower after inhalation, the high incidence of initial bronchocaine inhalation may limit its use in patients with asthma and thus offers therapeutic advantages for intravenous lidocane.

TL;DR: Impaired aggregometry using collagen as the activator proved to be the best and an independent predictor for the diagnosis and prognosis of severe sepsis in critical illness and allows better prediction of diagnosis and survival than conventional biomarkers and platelet count.