Publications by authors named "Thomas Georg Karl Breuer"
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe complication of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and the primary cause of death in the current pandemic. Critically ill patients often undergo extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy as the last resort over an extended period. ECMO therapy requires sedation of the patient, which is usually achieved by intravenous administration of sedatives.
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- An 81-year-old woman was treated in the ICU for a serious poisoning from digitoxin, which is a type of medicine that can be very dangerous if too much is taken.
- Doctors used a special treatment called CytoSorb hemoadsorption along with kidney support to help her get better, which worked really well.
- After a few days, her digitoxin levels dropped to normal, and she was stable enough to leave the ICU, showing that CytoSorb could be a good option for treating this kind of poisoning.