[Position paper of DGKL and DIVI on requirements for laboratory services in intensive care and emergency medicine].

Background And Objectives: The timely determination and evaluation of laboratory parameters in patients with acute life- or organ-threatening diseases and disease states in the emergency room or intensive care units can be essential for diagnosis, initiation of therapy, and outcome. The aim of the position paper is to define the time requirements for the provision of laboratory results in emergency and intensive care medicine. Requirements for point-of-care testing (POCT) and the (central) laboratory can be derived from the urgency.

Prediction of prolonged length of stay on the intensive care unit in severely injured patients-a registry-based multivariable analysis.

Purpose: Mortality is the primary outcome measure in severely injured trauma victims. However, quality indicators for survivors are rare. We aimed to develop and validate an outcome measure based on length of stay on the intensive care unit (ICU).