{"title":"[Extracorporeal removal of pathogens using a biomimetic adsorber-A new treatment strategy for the intensive care unit : Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter and its fields of application].","authors":"Malin-Theres Seffer, Jan T Kielstein","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01153-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01153-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) listed antimicrobial resistance among the top 10 threats to global health. The Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity blood filter (Seraph® 100) has been in use since 2019 to eliminate pathogens from the bloodstream in addition to anti-infective pharmacotherapy. It is the first device used to rapidly and efficiently reduce the number of circulating bacteria and viruses.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>After a background on the concept of extracorporeal pathogen removal in general, this review summarizes the preclinical and clinical data on the Seraph® 100 Affinity Blood Filter. The clinical effect of this treatment and potential therapeutic options are described.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Structured PubMed review including references published up to February 2024.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Case reports, uncontrolled observational studies and data from registries show widespread clinical use of the Seraph® 100 ranging from difficult to treat bacterial (super) infections to viral infections. The treatment can be done as stand-alone hemoperfusion or in combination with all forms of kidney replacement therapy as well as in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The use of the Seraph® 100 varies in terms of duration, concomitant therapy and clinical settings. Due to the absence of prospective controlled trials the clinical effect cannot be properly evaluated.</p>","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"290-299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dawid L Staudacher, Guido Michels, Michael R Preusch, Thomas Müller, Tobias Wengenmayer, Eike Tigges
{"title":"[Extracorporeal life support (ECLS)-update 2024].","authors":"Dawid L Staudacher, Guido Michels, Michael R Preusch, Thomas Müller, Tobias Wengenmayer, Eike Tigges","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01234-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01234-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"348-351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitteilungen der ÖGIAIN.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00063-025-01284-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00063-025-01284-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":"120 4","pages":"366"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144038901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline Widmaier, Denise Schindele, Karin Lichtinger
{"title":"[Early mobilization in the intensive care unit for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage-a review].","authors":"Jacqueline Widmaier, Denise Schindele, Karin Lichtinger","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01231-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01231-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Early mobilization of critical ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) has a positive effect on outcome. Currently, due to concerns of cerebral vasospasm and rebleeding patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) have a prolong bedrest for 12-14 days.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>What effect does early mobilization have on vasospasm, clinical outcome, length of stay and ICU complication rate in patients with SAH compared to standard treatment?</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic literature search was conducted in MEDLINE via the PubMed® (U.S. National Library of Medicine®, Bethesda, MD, USA) and CINAHL® (EBSCO, Ipswich, MA, USA) databases.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 14 studies were identified. Overall, the studies showed an improved functional outcome and a reduction in the length of hospitalization and ventilation time. Only in one study did vasospasms occur more frequently and the outcome of patients with early mobilization was worse.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Further research is needed to identify possible positive effects of early mobilization in patients with SAH and to be able to describe the risk-benefit ratio more precisely.</p>","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"340-347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142972958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander Niecke, Michaela Henning, Martin Hellmich, Yesim Erim, Eva Morawa, Petra Beschoner, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Franziska Geiser, Andreas M Baranowski, Kerstin Weidner, Sabine Mogwitz, Christian Albus
{"title":"[Mental distress of intensive care staff in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from the VOICE study].","authors":"Alexander Niecke, Michaela Henning, Martin Hellmich, Yesim Erim, Eva Morawa, Petra Beschoner, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Franziska Geiser, Andreas M Baranowski, Kerstin Weidner, Sabine Mogwitz, Christian Albus","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01164-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01164-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed major challenges to the healthcare system worldwide and led to particular stress among healthcare workers. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the level of global mental stress of direct healthcare workers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this prospective cross-sectional study with four measurement points (T1: 4-5/2020, T2:11/2020-1/2021, 5-7/2021, 2-5/2022), psychological distress symptoms were recorded in an online survey with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4) among hospital staff working in direct patient care (N = 5408 datasets). The total dataset was exploratively analyzed according to field of activity, gender, and professional group affiliation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Clinically relevant psychological distress (PHQ-4 ≥ 5) was present in 29.3% (n = 419/1429) of intensive care staff. A comparison of the four cross-sectional surveys showed a significant increase in the rate of clinically relevant mental distress in the first pandemic year (23.2% at T1 vs. 30.6% at T2; p < 0.01), which stabilized at a high level in the second pandemic year (33.6% at T3 and 32.0% at T4). Women did not differ from men in this respect (n = 280/919, 30.4% vs. n = 139/508, 27.4%; p = 0.74). Nursing staff were significantly more often psychologically stressed than physicians (n = 339/1105, 30.7% vs. n = 80/324, 24.7%; p = 0.03). Intensive care staff did not show significantly higher stress than staff working in nonintensive care areas (n = 419/1429, 29.3% vs. n = 1149/3979, 28.7%, p = 0.21).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>German healthcare workers reported high levels of mental distress during the pandemic, which increased during the course of the pandemic, but no significant difference was found between intensive care and nonintensive care staff in our sample. This may be due to the fact that the pandemic in Germany was comparatively moderate internationally and neither a collapse of the healthcare system in general nor a collapse of intensive care structures in particular took place.</p>","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"300-306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12041168/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natascha Majunke, Dan Philipp, Lorenz Weidhase, Bastian Pasieka, Kevin Kunz, Frank Seidel, Robert Scharm, Sirak Petros
{"title":"Passive leg raising test versus rapid fluid challenge in critically ill medical patients.","authors":"Natascha Majunke, Dan Philipp, Lorenz Weidhase, Bastian Pasieka, Kevin Kunz, Frank Seidel, Robert Scharm, Sirak Petros","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01176-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01176-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The passive leg raising (PLR) test is a simple test to detect preload responsiveness. However, variable fluid doses and infusion times were used in studies evaluating the effect of PLR. Studies showed that the effect of fluid challenge on hemodynamics dissipates in 10 min. This prospective study aimed to compare PLR and a rapid fluid challenge (RFC) with a 300-ml bolus infused within 5 min in adult patients with a hemodynamic compromise.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Critically ill medical patients with signs of systemic hypoperfusion were included if volume expansion was considered. Hemodynamic status was assessed with continuous measurements of cardiac output (CO), when possible, and mean arterial pressure (MAP) at baseline, during PLR, and after RFC.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 124 patients with a median age of 65.0 years were included. Their acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II score was 19.7 ± 6.0, with a sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score of 9.0 ± 4.4. Sepsis was diagnosed in 73.3%, and 79.8% of the patients were already receiving a norepinephrine infusion. Invasive MAP monitoring was established in all patients, while continuous CO recording was possible in 42 patients (33.9%). Based on CO changes, compared with those with RFC, the false positive and false negative rates with PLR were 21.7 and 36.8%, respectively, with positive and negative predictive values of 70.6 and 72.0%, respectively. Based on MAP changes, compared with those with RFC, the false positive and false negative rates with PLR compared to RFC were 38.2% and 43.3%, respectively, with positive and negative predictive values of 64.4 and 54.0%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study demonstrated a moderate agreement between PLR and RFC in hemodynamically compromised medical patients, which should be considered when testing preload responsiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"316-321"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040970/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melanie Hochleitner, Lena Pickert, Nick A Nolting, Anna Maria Affeldt, Ingrid Becker, Thomas Benzing, Matthias Kochanek, Maria Cristina Polidori
{"title":"Patient- vs organ-based prognostic tools for older patients in critical care units : An observational study with a 3-month follow-up.","authors":"Melanie Hochleitner, Lena Pickert, Nick A Nolting, Anna Maria Affeldt, Ingrid Becker, Thomas Benzing, Matthias Kochanek, Maria Cristina Polidori","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01179-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01179-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Anticipating a doubling of older adults in Europe by 2050, healthcare systems face substantial challenges, particularly in critical care units. However, there is still a lack of evidence-based knowledge for treating and assessing mortality risk in older patients. This study compared the predictive accuracy of two assessment tools for long-term outcomes among older patients: the Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) and the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA). As the MPI is based on a more holistic assessment, it may provide a more accurate prediction than the organ-based SOFA.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Does the MPI provide a more accurate prediction of mortality risk and quality of life for older patients in critical care units than the organ-based SOFA score?</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a 6-month study, 96 patients aged 65 and older admitted to intensive (ICU) or intermediate care units (IMC) were enrolled to assess 90-day mortality using a comprehensive geriatric assessment-based MPI and the SOFA score. The follow-up (FU) involved telephone assessments 30 and 90 days after admission, focusing on posthospitalization health and quality of life.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both MPI (p = 0.039) and SOFA score (p = 0.014) successfully predicted mortality among older IMC and ICU patients in logistic regressions. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses demonstrated comparable areas under the curve (AUCs) for MPI (0.618) and SOFA score (0.621), as well as a similar sensitivity and specificity (MPI 61.0% and 52.9%; SOFA score: 68.9% and 45.1%, respectively). The MPI at admission moreover correlated significantly with quality of life (p < 0.001, r = -0.631 at discharge; p = 0.005, r = -0.377 at 30-day FU; p = 0.004, r = -0.409 at 90-day FU) and nursing needs (Mann-Whitney U‑test, p = 0.002 at 30-day FU; p = 0.011 at 90-day FU) at FU, while the SOFA score did not show significant associations with respect to these parameters.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In geriatric critical care, both the MPI and the SOFA score effectively predict mortality risk. While the SOFA score may appear more practical due to its simpler and faster implementation, only the MPI demonstrated significant correlations with quality of life and nursing needs in the FU after 30 and 90 days.</p>","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"322-328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12041003/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142330671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Max Reger and his early death: could it have been avoided? : Would he have lived longer with adequate intensive care?]","authors":"Hans-Joachim Trappe","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01144-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01144-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Max Reger was an organist, university teacher and composer whose life, illnesses, death and dying are not or hardly known to many.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Which illnesses determined Reger's life and did his lifestyle and illnesses influence his compositional work? Could his early death have been avoided? From today's point of view, could modern intensive care medicine have helped him?</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A detailed analysis of Reger's diseases was performed using scientific databases (medline, pubmed). All published articles were evaluated and examined in detail.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Max Reger was born in Brand in 1873 and received early lessons in violin, piano and organ playing. From 1890 he studied at the conservatory in Sondershausen, later at the conservatory in Wiesbaden. In 1901 he moved to Munich, and in 1907 to Leipzig, where he became university director and professor at the conservatory. Four years later he took over the court chapel in Meiningen, but ended this activity again in 1914. A year later he moved to Jena and wrote his late works in the \"Jenaish style\". Reger suffered from many illnesses, especially bipolar disorder with manic and depressive phases. He had metabolic syndrome with arterial hypertension, was overweight and smoked incredibly heavily. Overeating (\"binge eating\" syndrome) and polydipsia were other prominent findings. Reger's life was characterized by alcohol abuse, often aggravated by professional and/or human crises. In 1916 Reger died suddenly and unexpectedly in Leipzig of cardiovascular failure.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Reger was an outstanding personality who left behind an extensive oeuvre. Among the highlights of Max Reger's oeuvre are his chorale fantasies such as on \"Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott\" (op. 27) or also the \"Fantasia and Fugue on B A C H\" (op. 46), but other compositions such as the Mozart Variations (op. 132) and the Clarinet Quintet (op. 146) are also world-famous. His lifestyle certainly favored coronary heart disease, the consequences of which caused Reger's sudden, unexpected and much too early death. Today's modern intensive care medicine could probably have prolonged his life.</p>","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"329-336"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiona Crossey, Lucas Zum Hebel, Daniel Wastl, Burc Bassa
{"title":"[Headaches following childbirth-severe ARDS in postpartum eclampsia].","authors":"Fiona Crossey, Lucas Zum Hebel, Daniel Wastl, Burc Bassa","doi":"10.1007/s00063-024-01222-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-024-01222-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"352-354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Franziska Wefer, Lars Krüger, Carsten Hermes, Peter Nydahl, Amrei Mehler-Klamt, Anett Henck, Marina Ufelmann, Jutta Tewesmeier, Jan Gummert, Sascha Köpke
{"title":"[Treatment algorithm: thirst management for critically ill people without artificial airway].","authors":"Franziska Wefer, Lars Krüger, Carsten Hermes, Peter Nydahl, Amrei Mehler-Klamt, Anett Henck, Marina Ufelmann, Jutta Tewesmeier, Jan Gummert, Sascha Köpke","doi":"10.1007/s00063-025-01251-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00063-025-01251-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49019,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin","volume":" ","pages":"337-339"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}