The association of ICUC trauma score and quick DASH in a distal radius fracture cohort.

Background: This study evaluates the association between ICUC trauma and short-form Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Questionnaire (Quick DASH) scores among patients who underwent surgery for distal radius fractures.

Methods: This research gathered patient-reported outcomes (PROs) from patients registered in the ICUC database at a single trauma center. The study involved 76 adult patients who underwent surgical treatment for distal radius fractures before 2023.

[Weaning in neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation-Results from the "WennFrüh" study of the German Society for Neurorehabilitation].

Neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation patients are often so critically ill that they must be weaned from mechanical ventilation in addition to early rehabilitative treatment. The German Society for Neurorehabilitation (DGNR) carried out a survey and asked neurological weaning units to provide information on structural characteristics of the facility, including personnel and technical resources and the number of cases and outcome based on anonymous data. In total 36 weaning units from 11 federal states with a total of 496 beds participated in the survey.

Factors influencing weaning from mechanical ventilation in neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation patients.

Background: Studies analyzing risk factors of weaning failure in neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation (NNER) patients are rare.

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify clinical factors influencing the weaning of NNER patients.

Design: An observational, retrospective data analysis of a German multicenter study was performed.

[Prolonged weaning during early neurological and neurosurgical rehabilitation : S2k guideline published by the Weaning Committee of the German Neurorehabilitation Society (DGNR)].

Prolonged weaning of patients with neurological or neurosurgery disorders is associated with specific characteristics, which are taken into account by the German Society for Neurorehabilitation (DGNR) in its own guideline. The current S2k guideline of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine is referred to explicitly with regard to definitions (e.g.

Outcome of neurological early rehabilitation patients carrying multi-drug resistant bacteria: results from a German multi-center study.

Background: Colonization or infection with multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria is considered detrimental to the outcome of neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation patients.

Methods: In a German multi-center study, 754 neurological early rehabilitation patients were enrolled and and reviewed in respect to MDR status, length of stay (LOS) and the following outcome variables: Barthel Index (BI), Early Rehabilitation Index (ERI), Glasgow Outcome Score Extended (GOSE), Coma Remission Scale (CRS), Functional Ambulation Categories (FAC).

Results: The mean age of the study population was 68.

Monitoring of Electrical Activity of the Diaphragm Shows Failure of T-Piece Trial Earlier than Protocol-Based Parameters in Prolonged Weaning in Non-communicative Neurological Patients.

Background: The weaning target in tracheotomised patients is not extubation, but spontaneous breathing without the support of a ventilator. Overloading the respiratory pump during such spontaneous breathing trials is unfavorable, prolongs weaning time, and increases morbidity and mortality. The goal of this study was to evaluate the electrical activity of the diaphragm during a t-piece trial in non-communicative neurological patients and the comparison to clinical parameters of exhaustion.

Criterion validity and sensitivity to change of the Early Rehabilitation Index (ERI): results from a German multi-center study.

Background: Evaluation of functional status is difficult in neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation patients. The Early Rehabilitation Index (ERI) was introduced in Germany over 20 years ago, but since then validation studies are lacking. The ERI (range -325 to 0 points) includes highly relevant items including the necessity of intermittent mechanical ventilation or tracheostomy.

[Course of rehabilitation in early neurological/neurosurgical rehabilitation. Results of a 2014 multi-center evaluation in Germany].

Background: In Germany, neurological-neurosurgical early rehabilitation is well established in the treatment of severe neurological diseases. To develop quality standards, knowledge of the current rehabilitation course is required.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on the course of rehabilitation from patients in an early neurological/neurosurgical rehabilitation program in 16 centers from 10 German states.

The Impact of Tracheostomy Timing on Clinical Outcome and Adverse Events in Poor-Grade Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Objective: The value of optimal timing of tracheostomy in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage is controversially debated. This study investigates whether early or late tracheostomy is associated with beneficial outcome or reduced rates of adverse events.

Design: Retrospective observational multicentric on patients prospectively inserted into a database.

Incorporation of carbon and nitrogen atoms into proteins measured by protein-based stable isotope probing (Protein-SIP).

The identification of metabolically active microbial key players is fundamental for understanding the structure and functions of contaminant-degrading communities. The metabolic activity can be analysed by feeding the microbial culture with stable-isotope-labelled substrates and subsequently tracing their incorporation into the biomass. In this paper we present a method which is able to detect the incorporation of stable isotopes from the substrate into the proteins of a benzene-metabolising microorganism.

Effects of illumination and enucleation on substance-P-immunoreactive structures in subcortical visual centers of golden hamster and Wistar rat.

The undecapeptide substance P is found in different entities of the visual system that control eye movement and synchronize endogenous rhythms with the light cycle (i.e., superior colliculus, suprachiasmatic nucleus, intergeniculate leaflet).

[Immunostaging of patients with chronic pancreatitis. I. A study of humoral and cell-mediated immunity (author's transl)].

Immunostaging was performed in patients with chronic pancreatitis of different etiologic groups. Immune responifveness was assessed by immunoglobulin serum levels, non specific autoantibody formation, C3 levels, antistreptolysin reaction, antibody titer against Toxoplasma gondii, E. coli, Herpes simplex-, Mumps- and Cytomegalovirus and screening for soluble immune-complexes (PEG precipitation assay), number of T- and B-lymphocytes, lymphocyte responsiveness to PHA, PPD, tetatoxoid and mumps-antigen in a whole blood assay, skin testing with candidin, trichophytin, tuberculin and streptokinase and HLA-typing.