[2 cases from the practice of intensive treatment].

Two cases from the intensive treatment practice are presented: Case I--a 43-year-old woman drawn out from a state of clinical death during chronic dialysis for chronic renal failure with importunate ultrafiltration to combat the severe pulmonary edema, which led to hypoxia and cardiac arrest with functionally affected hemodynamic parameters (central venous pressure), because of centrally placed a/v fistula. Case II--a 46-year-old woman with severe drug disease and extremely critical hypotonic hyperhydration and anasarca, treated also with ultrafiltration, enhanced sodium influx and intensive application of diuretics; for 24 hours a negative fluid balance was achieved (71191 ml) until finally a relative fluid-electrolyte equilibrium was reached.

[The diagnosis and treatment of lung barotrauma in newborn infants at risk].

Lung barotrauma (LBT) are some of the most frequent complications in the course of mechanical ventilation (MV) in risk newborn infants. The interstitial emphysema among them is the most frequent cause for development of chronic hung diseases, but the pneumothorax induces shock state, connected with high mortality. A retrospective analysis of the histories of the disease was carried out on 18 risk newborn infants with clinical and roentgenological data for pneumothorax.