Predicting the effectiveness of high-flow oxygen therapy in COVID-19 patients: a single-centre observational study.

Background: High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy is a helpful tool in the treatment of hypoxaemic respiratory failure. However, the clinical parameters predicting the effectiveness of HFNC in coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) patients remain unclear.

Methods: Sixteen COVID-19 patients undergoing HFNC in the Asklepios Lung Clinic Munich-Gauting, Germany between 16 March and 3 June 2020 were retrospectively included into the study.

Thinking outside the box: students positive about visionary elective curricula in medical school.

Space for personality development as well as for the development of critical, creative and interdisciplinary thinking is rarely found in medical curricula in Germany. To be prepared for the challenges of modern medicine, future physicians need a visionary mindset. The aim of this study is to determine the need for teaching such content among medical students in the context of visionary elective curricula and to examine these with regard to the desired topics and organizational structure.

Tackling the Waves of COVID-19: A Planning Model for Intrahospital Resource Allocation.

The current pandemic requires hospitals to ensure care not only for the growing number of COVID-19 patients but also regular patients. Hospital resources must be allocated accordingly. To provide hospitals with a planning model to optimally allocate resources to intensive care units given a certain incidence of COVID-19 cases.

Prevention of COVID-19 in Thoracic Surgery Patients: Lessons Learned during the First Pandemic Wave.

Background:  The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the implementation of measures to prevent perioperative COVID-19 in thoracic surgery during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 allowing a continued surgical treatment of patients.

Methods:  The implemented preventive measures in patient management of the thoracic surgery department of the Asklepios Lung Clinic Munich-Gauting, Germany were retrospectively analyzed. Postoperative COVID-19 incidence before and after implementation of preventive measures was investigated.

Statistical literacy and scientific reasoning & argumentation in physicians.

Statistical literacy (SL) of physicians, i.e. the ability to use and interpret statistical numbers in the context of science, is an essential prerequisite for risk estimation and communication.

Automated quantitative thin slice volumetric low dose CT analysis predicts disease severity in COVID-19 patients.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify predictive (bio-)markers for COVID-19 severity derived from automated quantitative thin slice low dose volumetric CT analysis, clinical chemistry and lung function testing.

Methods: Seventy-four COVID-19 patients admitted between March 16th and June 3rd 2020 to the Asklepios Lung Clinic Munich-Gauting, Germany, were included in the study. Patients were categorized in a non-severe group including patients hospitalized on general wards only and in a severe group including patients requiring intensive care treatment.

Development of atopic sensitization in Finnish and Estonian children: A latent class analysis in a multicenter cohort.

Background: The prevalence of atopy is associated with a Western lifestyle, as shown by studies comparing neighboring regions with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Atopy might reflect various conditions differing in their susceptibility to environmental factors.

Objective: We sought to define phenotypes of atopic sensitization in early childhood and examine their association with allergic diseases and hereditary background in Finland and Estonia.

[Overview of the Organization of the Emergency Medical Service in Germany: What is the Basis for the Hospital Restructuring Act and the Supply Enhancement Act?].

Unlabelled: In response to the increased use of emergency rooms, the increasing cost pressure on hospitals and the growing difficulty of filling emergency services in structurally weaker areas, the introduction of central practices (Portalpraxen) has been decided at federal level. Several Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen (KVen)) have already started to transform the medical on-call service before this legislative change and are now at different stages of the reform process. At many hospitals there are already so-called standby duty clinics (BDP).