Home visits in primary care: contents and organisation in daily practice. Study protocol of a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Medical care of homebound patients by home visits is an integral part of primary care in Germany and other industrialised countries. Owing to the sociodemography and changes in the health system, the need for home visits is projected to increase rather than decrease. Our study will provide information on content and organisation of home visits.

Efficacy of osteopathic manipulative treatment of female patients with migraine: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: Migraine is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders in Europe, severely affecting ability to work and quality of life. Medical therapies are considered to be the "gold standard" of treatment. This study addresses osteopathic treatment for acute therapy or prophylactic therapy as an alternative to traditional therapies.

Consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and illegal substances among physicians and medical students in Brandenburg and Saxony (Germany).

Background: Patients regard health care professionals as role models for leading a healthy lifestyle. Health care professionals' own behaviour and attitudes concerning healthy lifestyle have an influence in counselling patients. The aim of this study was to assess consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and illegal substances among physicians and medical students in two German states: Brandenburg and Saxony.

Video technology to advance safety in the operating room and perioperative environment.

Video is a powerful medium and is underused for patient safety in several areas: education, real-time consultation, process improvement, research, and workflow coordination. We illustrate this point through an overview of uses of video in health care by the authors and others in several institutions. These uses were in the context of team work training, operating room coordination, technical skills of invasive procedures, process improvement, telementoring, and multimedia video records.

Advanced visualization platform for surgical operating room coordination: distributed video board system.

One of the major challenges for day-of-surgery operating room coordination is accurate and timely situation awareness. Distributed and secure real-time status information is key to addressing these challenges. This article reports on the design and implementation of a passive status monitoring system in a 19-room surgical suite of a major academic medical center.

Surgical necrotizing enterocolitis and intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants below 1000 g.

Background/purpose: Infants with very low birth weight are at increased risk for both intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). IVH often progresses in severity after initial diagnosis and causes severe neurological morbidity and mortality. The authors examined the role of NEC in the progression of IVH in these infants.

Gangrenous intestine in a hernia can be reduced.

A 3-month-old former 31-week premature triplet presented with a perforated terminal ileum 36 hours after complete reduction of an incarcerated inguinal hernia. Classic pediatric surgery teaching asserts that gangrenous bowel in an inguinal hernia will not reduce. In this case, gangrenous bowel was reduced and proceeded to perforate after reduction.