Publications by authors named "T Brack"
A 39-year-old healthy patient accidentally stepped barefoot on an adder and was then bitten into the foot. After initially only local complaints, severe systemic symptoms developed within 10-15 minutes with swelling of the lips and soft palate, recurrent vomiting, bradycardia, weakly palpable peripheral pulse, hypotension, dyspnea and intermittent somnolence. The potentially life-threatening consequences of this severe poisoning could be avoided by using adequate emergency measures and immediate intravenous administration of antivenin.
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- Mortality is a key outcome in COPD research, but this study focused on whether tracking predictors over time improves understanding of mortality risk compared to a one-time measurement.
- A longitudinal study followed 297 COPD patients for up to seven years, annually assessing mortality and potential predictors, with a median survival time identified at 8.2 years.
- The results indicated that the predictors of mortality remained consistent over time, suggesting that cross-sectional assessments are reliable and do not provide additional insights compared to longitudinal measurements.
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- The study investigates whether immunological biomarkers alongside clinical characteristics can predict the frequency and severity of acute exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Researchers analyzed data from 271 stable COPD patients, identifying key factors like medication count and lung function that correlated with exacerbation rates over a year.
- The findings suggest that while a combination of clinical and biomarker data can predict AECOPD events, clinical parameters alone provided slightly better predictive ability than when including biomarker data.
Background: We showed excellent adherence and satisfaction with our telehealth care (TC) approach for COPD. Here, the results of a consecutive randomized controlled trial are presented.
Methods: Patients were randomly assigned to TC or standard care (SC).