A decade of interdisciplinary care.

A decade of organizing, implementing, and evaluating interdisciplinary care teams at St Luke's Regional Medical Center has reinforced the value of developing and maintaining clinical and nonclinical competencies. The value of consensus in task delegation cannot be overemphasized. Unit directors have expanded their scope of responsibility and must remain vigilant to avoid fragmentation of care in an interdisciplinary team delivery system.

[Pulse frequency of patients with recent myocardial infarction during ski touring (author's transl)].

During two-day cross country skiing courses for beginners telemetric pulse measurements were carried out on male patients with recent myocardial infarction and middle-aged sportswomen (first day: instruction in techniques; seocnd day: walking tour). The following results were obtained: 1. The pulse frequency varied little during the different exercises.