Simplified Pain Management Including Fentanyl TTS in PACU Patients With Hip Fracture Surgery to Improve Patients' Well-Being: A Double-Blind Randomized Trial.

Purpose: Adequate pain management is eminently relevant for elderly and more vulnerable patients with hip fractures in the setting of pre and postoperative pain. This study compares postoperative hip fracture patients treated with standard pain management with a variety of medications or an approach with only one option in each medication category (nonopioid: acetaminophen; opioid: fentanyl TTS 12,5 mcg/hour; rescue medication: piritramide) to simplify the treatment algorithm for nurses and improve patient well-being.

Design: Double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Local Periarticular Infiltration with Dexmedetomidine Results in Superior Patient Well-Being after Total Knee Arthroplasty Compared with Peripheral Nerve Blocks: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial with a Follow-Up of Two Years.

Background: This study aimed to compare local periarticular infiltration (LIA) with ultra-sound guided regional anesthesia (USRA) with ropivacaine and dexmedetomidine as an additive agent in primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods: Fifty patients were randomized into two groups in a 1:1 ratio. Patients in the LIA group received local periarticular infiltration into the knee joint.

Physician utilization in prehospital emergency medical services in Europe: an overview and comparison.

Objectives: National and regional systems for emergency medical care provision may differ greatly. We sought to determine whether or not physicians are utilized in prehospital care and to what extent they are present in differentEuropean countries.

Material And Methods: We collected information on 32 European countries by reviewing publications and sending questionnaires to authors of relevant articles as well as to officials of ministries of health (or equivalent), representatives of national societies in emergency medicine, or well-known experts in the specialty.

Prolonged sedation with sevoflurane in comparison to intravenous sedation in critically ill patients - A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Volatile anesthetics are used more commonly for sedation in the intensive-care-unit (ICU). However, evidence for long-term use remains low. We therefore conducted a randomized-controlled trial comparing sevoflurane with intravenous sedation with particular focus on efficacy and safety.

[Functional and morphological disorders of taste and olfaction in COVID-19 patients].

Objective: This study aimed to test the prevalence and evolution of acute olfactory and gustatory functional impairment and their morphologic correlates in COVID-19 patients who require hospitalization due to COVID-19-related respiratory conditions.

Methods: Included were 53 consecutive hospitalized patients (23 males, 30 females; age 42.54 ± 10.

Combined femoral and popliteal nerve block is superior to local periarticular infiltration anaesthesia for postoperative pain control after total knee arthroplasty.

Introduction: After primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA), local periarticular infiltration anaesthesia (LIA) is a fast and safe method for postoperative pain control. Moreover, ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia (USRA) with femoral and popliteal block is a standard procedure in perioperative care. Two analgesic regimens for TKA-LIA versus URSA with dexmedetomidine-were compared as an additive to ropivacaine.

The Austrian ICU survey : A questionnaire-based evaluation of intensive care medicine in Austria.

Background: While structures of intensive care medicine in Austria are well defined, data on organisational and medical practice in intensive care units (ICUs) have not been systematically evaluated.

Methods: In this explorative survey, organisational and medical details of ICUs in Austria were collected using an online questionnaire consisting of 147 questions.

Results: Out of 249 registered ICUs 73 (29.

[Post-polio Syndrome in the Perioperative Phase].

Due to the numerous poliomyelitis epidemics that have continued over the last decades and the post-polio syndrome (PPS) that occurs 10 - 30 years after poliomyelitis infection, the prevalence of PPS is also expected to increase in Europe. At the same time, due to the musculoskeletal disorders associated with the underlying disease, PPS patients often require surgery for which special anaesthetic requirements must be taken into account. In this analysis we summarise the current evidence and recommendations.

Google Trends for Pain Search Terms in the World's Most Populated Regions Before and After the First Recorded COVID-19 Case: Infodemiological Study.

Background: Web-based analysis of search queries has become a very useful method in various academic fields for understanding timely and regional differences in the public interest in certain terms and concepts. Particularly in health and medical research, Google Trends has been increasingly used over the last decade.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the search activity of pain-related parameters on Google Trends from among the most populated regions worldwide over a 3-year period from before the report of the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in these regions (January 2018) until December 2020.

Electrogustometry: Normative data for stimulus duration, tongue site and age decline.

Objectives: Our primary goal was to evaluate the effect of stimulus duration on electrogustometry (EGM) thresholds. Additionally, we sought to evaluate any sex-related influences and compare the above results to those of taste strips.

Design: Electrogustometry thresholds of various stimulus durations (0.

Adsorption therapy in critically ill with septic shock and acute kidney injury: a retrospective and prospective cohort study.

Background: Haemoadsorption has been described as an effective way to control increased pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators ("cytokine storm") in septic shock patients. No prospective or randomised clinical study has yet confirmed these results. However, no study has yet prospectively specifically investigated patients in severe septic shock with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI).

Adult patients' wellbeing and disturbances during early recovery in the post anaesthesia care unit. A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Assessment of patients' wellbeing in the post anaesthesia care unit and how much each disturbance influences it. Furthermore, assessment of the incidence of the correlated disturbances and whether there are gender-specific aspects.

Design/setting: Observational anonymised survey with a validated questionnaire in a university hospital in central Europe.

[Severe Shock Symptoms Due to Ticagrelor Related Anaphylactoid Reaction Following ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction].

Background: Ticagrelor as a P2Y12 receptor antagonist is recommended in patients with acute coronary syndrome without a primary cardiosurgical therapy. Severe relevant side effects, especially anaphylactic reactions, have not yet been described in the current literature.

Case Presentation: We describe the first documented case in the current literature with a severe anaphylaxis after ticagrelor in a 76-year-old male patient with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.