[Is there life after trauma surgery? Cooperation with the developmental aid worker Karlheinz Böhm].

The editors of the journal The Trauma Surgeon provided the stimulus for the topic "is there life after trauma surgery?": an unusual and original idea given the aging of society. This article describes the friendly attachment with the former actor and current developmental aid worker in Ethiopia, Karlheinz Böhm. During this cooperation five hospitals were founded and a languishing university clinic in the region of Illubarbor near to the Sudanese border could be modernized and raised to be an efficient medical faculty of Ethiopia.

Prospective documentation and analysis of the pre- and early clinical management in severe head injury in southern Bavaria at a population based level.

Treatment of patients suffering from severe head injury is so far restricted to general procedures, whereas specific pharmacological agents of neuroprotection including hypothermia have not been found to improve the outcome in clinical trials. Albeit effective, symptomatic measures of the preclinical rescue of patients (i.e.

A multidisciplinary quality management system for the early treatment of severely injured patients: implementation and results in two trauma centers.

Objective: The impact of a multidisciplinary quality management system (MQMS) on the early treatment of severely injured patients was tested.

Design And Setting: Prospective clinical study in two level 1 trauma centers.

Methods And Materials: MQMS comprised a protocol for documentation, 20 assessment criteria, and the judgement of data by a quality circle.

[Outcome of long-term intensive therapy of surgery patients].

Objective: The treatment of severely ill patients remains a medical and human challenge. The aim of the study was to determine the survival rate of patients with prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) treatment. Additionally, the somatic, psychological, and social sequelae of the survivors should be determined.

[Stable and unstable pertrochanteric femoral fractures. Differentiated indications for the dynamic hip screw].

The aim of all surgical procedures in the treatment of trochanteric fractures in elderly and even geriatric patients is achievement of initial stability. We examined in a clinical trial whether primary stability was achieved in all types of trochanteric fractures following osteosynthesis with the Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS). From 1994 to 1996, 122 patients with trochanteric fractures had osteosynthesis by dynamic hip screw.