Publications by authors named "D Geber"
Article Synopsis
- Post-dural puncture headache is a common complication following epidural and subarachnoid blockades, often treated with a blood patch, which may provide only partial relief for some patients.
- In this case, a 47-year-old male developed a subdural hematoma after an accidental dura mater puncture during an epidural block, initially leading to a post-dural puncture headache.
- Despite receiving a blood patch, the patient's headache worsened, prompting an MRI that confirmed the hematoma, which was managed clinically, ultimately resulting in his full recovery after 30 days.
Purpose: The majority of patients dying in intensive care units (ICUs) do so after the forgoing of life-sustaining therapies (FLST). Communication between physicians, patients, and their families regarding the decision to FLST has not been evaluated in Israel.
Materials And Methods: All patients who had FLST in a general ICU were enrolled in the study.
Objective: To assess physician decision-making in triage for intensive care and how judgments impact on patient survival.
Design: Prospective, descriptive study.
Setting: General intensive care unit, university medical center.
Objective: To determine whether physicians in Israel withhold and/or withdraw life-sustaining treatments.
Design: A prospective, descriptive study of consecutively admitted patients. Patients were prospectively evaluated for diagnoses, types and reasons for foregoing life-sustaining treatment, mortality and times from foregoing therapy until mortality.
Background: Tachyarrhythmias are the classical manifestation of toluene cardiotoxicity. The presumed mechanism is sensitization of the myocardium to the potential arrhythmogenic effect of endogenous catecholamines, occasionally resulting in fatality. Bradyarrhythmias have been repeatedly shown in animal models, but have been reported only once in a human.
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