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2. CaNaPy: LGS-AO experimental facility for visible wavelengths
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Domenico Bonaccini Calia, James Osborn, Pierre Haguenauer, Marcos Reyes García-Talavera, David Alaluf, Mauro Centrone, Noelia Martínez Rey, David R. Jenkins, Petr Janout, Marco Faccini, Alfio . Puglisi, Andreas Jost, Guido Agapito, Renate Hinterschuster, Ralf D. Conzelmann, Ivan M. Guidolin, Matthew J. Townson, Marco Bonaglia, Enrico Pinna, Filippo Ambrosino, Luis Fernando Rodríguez Ramos, and Wolfgang K. Hackenberg
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- 2022
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3. Automatic calculation of a modified APACHE II score using a patient data management system (PDMS).
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Axel Junger, Sebastian Böttger, Jörg Engel, Matthias Benson, Achim Michel, Rainer Röhrig, Andreas Jost, and Gunter Hempelmann
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- 2002
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4. Sectio caesarea bei einer Patientin mit Fontan-Zirkulation
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J.B. Engel, Andreas Jost, J. Thul, Emmanuel Schneck, M.F. Müller, V. Mann, and C. Körner
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medicine.medical_specialty ,education.field_of_study ,Pregnancy ,Pediatrics ,Uterine Hemorrhage ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Pain medicine ,Population ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Fontan procedure ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Quality of life ,Anesthesiology ,medicine ,Life expectancy ,cardiovascular diseases ,education ,business - Abstract
Adults suffering from congenital heart diseases (CHD) represent a challenge to anesthesiologists because of the diverse pathologies, complex pathophysiology and special treatment strategies. Due to improved therapeutic options for CHD, patient quality of life and life expectancy is increasing, leaving them as a growing population including pregnant patients with CHD. This article presents the main principles of the pathophysiology and anesthesiological management of pregnant patients living with a Fontan circulation based on a case report, which was complicated by an aortic coarctation and atonic uterine hemorrhage.
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- 2015
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5. P679: SPOTLIGHT ON THE REAL-WORLD TREATMENT OF CML PTS IN GERMANY: A RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY IN PRIVATE ONCOLOGY PRACTICES
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Georg-Nikolaus Franke, Gunnar Loewe, Marcel Reiser, Hartmut Linde, Andreas Josting, Eyck von der Heyde, Rudolf Weide, Hans Tesch, Arndt Nusch, Jolanta Dengler, and Kathleen Jentsch-Ullrich
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Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 - Published
- 2023
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6. Beta-blocker treatment of chronic systolic heart failure improves prognosis even in patients meeting one or more exclusion criteria of the MERIT-HF study
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Andreas Jost, Steffen Schneider, Markus Haass, Herbert Lorenz, Christian Zugck, Martina Jacobs, Jochen Senges, Caroline Kilkowski, Bernhard H. Rauch, Kerstin Muth, Ralph Winkler, Matthias Hochadel, Andrew Remppis, and Andreas Kilkowski
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Heart disease ,medicine.drug_class ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Adrenergic beta-Antagonists ,Population ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Registries ,Myocardial infarction ,education ,Beta blocker ,Aged ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,Aged, 80 and over ,Heart Failure ,Heart transplantation ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Hazard ratio ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,medicine.disease ,Survival Analysis ,Blood pressure ,Heart failure ,Chronic Disease ,Cardiology ,Female ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Aims Improved prognosis of patients with chronic systolic heart failure by treatment with beta-blockers has been shown in several randomized controlled multicentre trials. However, in clinical practice only a part of heart failure patients meet the inclusion criteria of these trials. The present study evaluates whether reduction of mortality by beta-blockers also can be achieved in patients presenting one or more exclusion criteria of the MERIT-HF trial. Methods and results From the Ludwigshafen Heart Failure Registry 675 patients with chronic systolic heart failure consecutively enrolled between January 1995 and June 2004 were divided in two groups either meeting the inclusion criteria of the MERIT-HF trial (‘trial patients’: n =278, 60% treated with beta-blockers) or not (‘non-trial patients’: n =397; 51% treated with beta-blockers). The distribution of the MERIT-HF exclusion criteria in the group of ‘non-trial patients’ was as follows: acute myocardial infarction 9.6%; systolic blood pressure
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- 2005
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7. Impact of inadequate surgical antibiotic prophylaxis on perioperative outcome and length of stay on ICU in general and trauma surgery
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Alexander Eicher, Axel Junger, Jochen Sucke, Andreas Jost, Dominik Brammen, Bernd Hartmann, and Rainer Röhrig
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Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Perioperative ,Intensive care unit ,law.invention ,Infectious Diseases ,Standardized mortality ratio ,law ,Intensive care ,Chemoprophylaxis ,medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Antibiotic prophylaxis ,Intensive care medicine ,business ,Trauma surgery ,Antibacterial agent - Abstract
Within surgical departments, a large amount of antibiotics is used for perioperative prophylaxis. Despite the existence of several guidelines and recommendations for administering antibiotic prophylaxis, mistakes still do occur and have an unknown impact on outcome severity. Based on the electronic anaesthesia records of 4304 patients undergoing defined surgical procedures requiring perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis, a matched pairs approach was used to evaluate the impact of inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis on hospital mortality and prolonged length of stay on intensive care. Stepwise regression models were developed to predict the impact of inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis on outcome measures. An inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis was found for a total of 877 cases. 77.9% of cases were successfully matched, leading to 683 cases and controls each. The crude mortality ratio of cases to controls was 1.5 (cases = 21 versus controls = 14; P = 0.19). The case group had a significantly (P 1 day; yes or no).
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- 2005
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8. Differing Incidences of Relevant Hypotension with Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia and Spinal Anesthesia
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Axel Junger, Myron M. Kwapisz, Joachim Klasen, Anne Banzhaf, Bernd Hartmann, Gunter Hempelmann, Andreas Jost, and Matthias Benson
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Adult ,Anesthesia, Epidural ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Arterial hypotension ,MEDLINE ,Blood Pressure ,Anesthesia, Spinal ,Online Systems ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Humans ,Intraoperative Complications ,Aged ,Monitoring, Physiologic ,business.industry ,Data interpretation ,Spinal anesthesia ,Middle Aged ,Models, Theoretical ,Surgery ,Logistic Models ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Combined spinal epidural ,Regional anesthesia ,Data Interpretation, Statistical ,Anesthesia ,Female ,Hypotension ,Complication ,business ,Algorithms - Abstract
In this investigation we assessed whether patients receiving spinal anesthesia (SPA) as part of combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSE) more often experience relevant hypotension than patients receiving SPA alone. From January 1, 1997, until August 5, 2000, electronic anesthesia records from 1596 patients having received SPA and 1023 patients having received CSE for elective surgery were collected by using a computerized anesthesia record-keeping system. Relevant hypotension was defined as a decrease of mean arterial blood pressure of more than 30% within a 10-min interval and a therapeutic action of the attending anesthesiologist within 20 min after onset. Electronic patient charts were reviewed by using logistic regression with a forward stepwise algorithm to identify independent risk factors that were associated with an increased incidence of hypotension after CSE. Univariate analysis was performed to assess differences in biometric data and relevant risk factors for hypotension between the two procedures. The incidence of relevant hypotension was more frequent with CSE than with SPA alone (10.9% versus 5.0%; P0.001). In the multivariate analysis, arterial hypertension (odds ratio, 1.83; 95% confidence interval, 1.21-2.78) and sensory block heightT6 (odds ratio, 2.81; 95% confidence interval, 1.88-4.22) were found to be factors associated with hypotension in the CSE group. Compared with patients receiving SPA alone, patients undergoing CSE had a significantly more frequent prevalence of arterial hypertension and higher sensory block levels (P0.01) despite smaller amounts of local anesthetics. In this study, patients receiving CSE had an increased risk for relevant hypotension as compared with patients with SPA alone. Part of this effect seems to be due to the procedure alone and not only because this population is at higher risk.This study, based on a large number of patients with a retrospective design by using on-line recorded data, suggests that spinal anesthesia as part of combined spinal-epidural anesthesia may more often lead to relevant hypotension than spinal anesthesia alone. Preexisting arterial hypertension and a sensory block height exceeding T6 are major risk factors for the development of this complication.
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9. The Incidence and Risk Factors for Hypotension After Spinal Anesthesia Induction: An Analysis with Automated Data Collection
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Bernd Hartmann, Axel Junger, Joachim Klasen, Matthias Benson, Andreas Jost, Anne Banzhaf, and Gunter Hempelmann
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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine - Published
- 2002
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Gunter Hempelmann, Matthias Benson, Andreas Jost, J. Sticher, Martin Golinski, Stefan Scholz, Bernd Hartmann, and Axel Junger
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Receiver operating characteristic ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Health Informatics ,Retrospective cohort study ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Logistic regression ,Surgery ,Hypoxemia ,Pneumonectomy ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Cardiothoracic surgery ,Anesthesia ,Predictive value of tests ,Anesthesiology ,medicine ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Objective.The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the suitability of routine data gathered with a computerized anesthesia record keeping system in investigating predictors for intraoperative hypoxemia (SpO2 < 90%) during one-lung ventilation (OLV) in pulmonary surgery. Methods.Over a four-year period data of 705 patients undergoing thoracic surgery (pneumonectomy: 78; lobectomy: 292; minor pulmonary resections: 335) were recorded online using an automated anesthesia record-keeping system. Twenty-six patient-related, surgery-related and anesthesia-related variables were studied for a possible association with the occurrence of intraoperative hypoxemia during OLV. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate (logistic regression) analysis (p< 0.05). The model’s discriminative power on hypoxemia was checked with a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Calibration was tested using the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test. Results.An intraoperative incidence of hypoxemia during OLV was found in 67 patients (9.5%). Using logistic regression with a forward stepwise algorithm, body-mass-index (BMI, p= 0.018) and preoperative existing pneumonia (p= 0.043) could be detected as independent predictors having an influence on the incidence of hypoxemia during OLV. An acceptable goodness-of-fit could be observed using cross validation for the model (C = 8.21, p= 0.370, degrees of freedom, df 8; H = 3.21, p= 0.350, df 3), the discriminative power was poor with an area under the ROC curve of 0.58 [0.51–0.66]. Conclusions.In contrast to conventional performed retrospective studies, data were directly available for analyses without any manual intervention. Due to incomplete information and imprecise definitions of parameters, data of computerized anesthesia records collected in routine are helpful but not satisfactory in evaluating risk factors for hypoxemia during OLV.
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- 2002
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D. Uphus, Gunter Hempelmann, A. Junger, M. Benson, Sebastian Böttger, Andreas Jost, C. Fuchs, and L. Quinzio
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Medical record ,MEDLINE ,Health Informatics ,Perioperative ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Anesthesiology ,Health care ,medicine ,Quality (business) ,Medical emergency ,business ,Adverse effect ,Quality assurance ,media_common - Abstract
Objective.A deficit is suspected in the manual documentation ofadverse events in quality assurance programs in anesthesiology. In order toverify and quantify this, we retrospectively compared the incidence ofmanually recorded perioperative adverse events with automatically detectedevents. Methods.In 1998, data of all anesthetic procedures, includingthe data set for quality assurance of the German Society of Anaesthesiologyand Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI), was recorded online with the AnesthesiaInformation Management System (AIMS) NarkoData4® (Imeso GmbH). SQL(Structured Query Language) queries based on medical data were defined for theautomatic detection of common adverse events. The definition of the SQLstatements had to be in accordance with the definition of the DGAI forperioperative adverse events: A potentially harmful change of parameters ledto therapeutic interventions by an anesthesiologist. Results.During16,019 surgical procedures, anesthesiologists recorded 911 (5.7%) adverseevents manually, whereas 2966 (18.7%) events from the same database weredetected automatically. With the exception of hypoxemia, the incidence ofautomatically detected events was considerably higher than that of manuallyrecorded events. Fourteen and a half percent (435) of all automaticallydetected events were recorded manually. Conclusion.Using automaticdetection, we were able to prove a considerable deficit in the documentationof adverse events according to the guidelines of the German quality assuranceprogram in anesthesiology. Based on the data from manual recording, theresults of the quality assurance of our department match those of othercomparable German departments. Thus, we are of the opinion that manualincident reporting seriously underestimates the true occurrence rate ofincidents. This brings into question the validity of quality assurancecomparisons based on manually recorded data.
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- 2000
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12. Involvement of K+ channels in the relaxant effects of YC-1 in vascular smooth muscle
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Rikuo Ochi, Hermann Nawrath, Sabine Seitz, Rolf Gerhard, Andreas Jost, Johanna Rupp, Makino Watanabe, Jörg W. Wegener, and Asher Shainberg
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Male ,Indazoles ,Potassium Channels ,Time Factors ,Vascular smooth muscle ,Charybdotoxin ,Muscle Relaxation ,Guinea Pigs ,Aorta, Thoracic ,In Vitro Techniques ,Pharmacology ,Muscle, Smooth, Vascular ,Membrane Potentials ,Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,Glibenclamide ,Phenylephrine ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,medicine.artery ,medicine ,Animals ,Drug Interactions ,Aorta ,Tetraethylammonium ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,Chemistry ,Anatomy ,Iberiotoxin ,Rats ,Vasodilation ,Carotid Arteries ,Potassium ,Female ,Zaprinast ,medicine.drug - Abstract
This study addresses the question whether K(+) channels are involved in the vasorelaxant effects of 3-(5'-hydroxymethyl-2'-furyl)-1-benzyl-indazole (YC-1 ). In rat aorta, guinea pig aorta, and guinea pig a. carotis, YC-1 inhibited contractions induced by phenylephrine (3 microM) more potently than those induced by K(+)(48 mM). In rat aorta, tetraethylammonium (10 mM), charybdotoxin (0.2 microM), and iberiotoxin (0.1 microM), but not glibenclamide (10 microM), attenuated the relaxant effects of YC-1. In guinea pig a. carotis, YC-1 (30 microM) induced a hyperpolarisation which was antagonised by 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4, 3-a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ; 50 microM). In rat aorta, YC-1 (30 microM) increased the rate constant of 86Rb-efflux. The effect of YC-1 was potentiated by zaprinast (10 microM), but inhibited by ODQ (50 microM) or charybdotoxin (0.2 microM). In smooth muscle cells from rat aorta, YC-1 (10 microM) increased BK(Ca) channel activity. It is suggested that YC-1-induced vasorelaxation is partially mediated by the activation of K(+) channels.
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- 1999
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13. Corrected incidences of co-morbidities - a statistical approach for risk-assessment in anesthesia using an AIMS
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Axel Junger, Andreas Jost, Bernd Hartmann, F. Brenck, Joachim Klasen, Gunter Hempelmann, Rainer Röhrig, and Dominik Brammen
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medicine.medical_specialty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Health Informatics ,Comorbidity ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Logistic regression ,Risk Assessment ,Anesthesiology ,Intensive care ,Monitoring, Intraoperative ,medicine ,Humans ,Anesthesia ,Risk factor ,media_common ,Retrospective Studies ,Variables ,Models, Statistical ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Prognosis ,Variable (computer science) ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,Calibration ,Regression Analysis ,Co morbidity ,business ,Risk assessment ,Algorithms ,Software - Abstract
In anesthesia and intensive care logistic regression analysis are often used to generate predictive models for risk assessment. Strictly seen only independent variables should be represented in such prognostic models. Using anesthesia-information-management-systems a lot of (depending) information is stored in a database during the preoperative ward round. The objective of this study was to evaluate a statistical algorithm to process the different dependent variables without losing the information of each variable on patient's conditions.Based on data about prognostic models in anesthesia an iterative statistical algorithm was initiated to summarize dependent variables to subscores. Seven subscores out of several preoperative variables were calculated corresponding to the proper incidence and the correlation to the occurrence of intraoperative cardiovascular events was evaluated. After that first step logistic regression was used to build a predictive model out of the seven subscores, 10 patient-related, and two surgery-related variables. Performance of the prognostic model was assessed using analysis of discrimination and calibration.Four out of seven subscores together with age, type and urgency of surgery are represented in the prognostic model to predict the occurrence of intraoperative cardiovascular events. The prognostic model demonstrated good discriminative power with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.734.Due to reduced calibration, the clinical use of the prediction model is limited.
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- 2006
14. Examining the influence of maternal bradycardia on neonatal outcome using automated data collection
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H. Harbach, Axel Junger, Dörthe Brüggmann, R. Obaid, F. Brenck, B. Hartmann, Rainer Röhrig, and Andreas Jost
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Bradycardia ,Adult ,Medical Records Systems, Computerized ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Anesthesia, General ,Intraoperative Period ,Heart Rate ,Pregnancy ,Heart rate ,medicine ,Humans ,Caesarean section ,Prospective Studies ,Acid-Base Equilibrium ,Univariate analysis ,business.industry ,Cesarean Section ,Data Collection ,Infant, Newborn ,Pregnancy Outcome ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Stepwise regression ,Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Logistic Models ,Anesthesia ,Apgar Score ,Apgar score ,Base excess ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Body mass index - Abstract
Due to the increasing number of caesarean sections, we investigated the influence of maternal bradycardia during general and regional anaesthesia on seven standard paediatric outcome parameters using our online recorded data.Data from 1154 women undergoing caesarean section were investigated prospectively. Bradycardia was defined as a heart rate below 60 beats/min. The matched-pairs method was used to evaluate the impact of bradycardia on Apgar scores at 1, 5, and 10 min, umbilical artery pH and base excess, admission to paediatric intensive care unit, and seven-day mortality. Matched references were automatically selected among all patients from the data pool according to anaesthetic technique, sensory block height, urgency, maternal age and body mass index. Stepwise regression models were developed to predict the impact of intra-operative bradycardia on outcome variables with differences between matched pairs assessed using univariate analysis.Bradycardia was found in 146 women (12.7%) for whom a control could be matched in 131 cases (89.7%). Mean 5-minute Apgar score was 9.2+/-1.1 for study patients and 9.3+/-1.1 for controls. pH and base excess were not significantly different between groups. In cases of urgent surgery, neonates had an increased risk of 1.8 (95% CI 1.36-2.44, P0.01) for an Apgar scoreor= 8 at 1 min and a 2.6-fold risk (95% CI 1.64-4.06, P0.01) of umbilical arterial pH ofor= 7.2 compared to infants undergoing non-urgent procedures.Using matched-pairs analysis we were unable to demonstrate that episodes of maternal bradycardia below 60 beats/min were associated with a poorer neonatal outcome regardless of anaesthetic technique.
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- 2006
15. Performance and customization of 4 prognostic models for postoperative onset of nausea and vomiting in ear, nose, and throat surgery
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Simon Little, Andreas Jost, Gunter Hempelmann, Jörg Engel, Axel Junger, Rose Schnöbel, Bernd Hartmann, Ingeborg Welters, and Valesco Mann
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,medicine.drug_class ,Nausea ,Logistic regression ,Predictive Value of Tests ,medicine ,Antiemetic ,Humans ,Postoperative Period ,Models, Statistical ,Receiver operating characteristic ,business.industry ,Perioperative ,Middle Aged ,Surgery ,Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Anesthesia ,Predictive value of tests ,Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting ,Vomiting ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Postoperative nausea and vomiting - Abstract
Objective To evaluate the performance of 4 published prognostic models for postoperative onset of nausea and vomiting (PONV) by means of discrimination and calibration and the possible impact of customization on these models. Design Prospective, observational study. Setting Tertiary care university hospital. Patients 748 adult patients (>18 years old) enrolled in this study. Severe obesity (weight > 150 kg or body mass index > 40 kg/m) was an exclusion criterion. Interventions All perioperative data were recorded with an anesthesia information management system. A standardized patient interview was performed on the postoperative morning and afternoon. Measurements Individual PONV risk was calculated using 4 original regression equations by Koivuranta et al, Apfel et al, Sinclair et al, and Junger et al Discrimination was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Calibration was tested using Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistics. New predictive equations for the 4 models were derived by means of logistic regression (customization). The prognostic performance of the customized models was validated using the "leaving-one-out" technique. Main Results Postoperative onset of nausea and vomiting was observed in 11.2% of the specialized patient population. Discrimination could be demonstrated as shown by areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.62 for the Koivuranta et al model, 0.63 for the Apfel et al model, 0.70 for the Sinclair et al model, and 0.70 for the Junger et al model. Calibration was poor for all 4 original models, indicated by a P value lower than 0.01 in the C and H statistics. Customization improved the accuracy of the prediction for all 4 models. However, the simplified risk scores of the Koivuranta et al model and the Apfel et al model did not show the same efficiency as those of the Sinclair et al model and the Junger et al model. This is possibly a result of having relatively few patients at high risk for PONV in combination with an information loss caused by too few dichotomous variables in the simplified scores. Conclusions The original models were not well validated in our study. An antiemetic therapy based on the results of these scores seems therefore unsatisfactory. Customization improved the accuracy of the prediction in our specialized patient population, more so for the Sinclair et al model and the Junger et al model than for the Koivuranta et al model and the Apfel et al model.
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16. Impact of inadequate surgical antibiotic prophylaxis on perioperative outcome and length of stay on ICU in general and trauma surgery. Analysis using automated data collection
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Bernd, Hartmann, Jochen, Sucke, Dominik, Brammen, Andreas, Jost, Alexander, Eicher, Rainer, Röhrig, and Axel, Junger
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Male ,Intensive Care Units ,Postoperative Complications ,Case-Control Studies ,Humans ,Female ,Antibiotic Prophylaxis ,Length of Stay ,Mortality ,Perioperative Care ,Quality of Health Care - Abstract
Within surgical departments, a large amount of antibiotics is used for perioperative prophylaxis. Despite the existence of several guidelines and recommendations for administering antibiotic prophylaxis, mistakes still do occur and have an unknown impact on outcome severity. Based on the electronic anaesthesia records of 4304 patients undergoing defined surgical procedures requiring perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis, a matched pairs approach was used to evaluate the impact of inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis on hospital mortality and prolonged length of stay on intensive care. Stepwise regression models were developed to predict the impact of inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis on outcome measures. An inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis was found for a total of 877 cases. 77.9% of cases were successfully matched, leading to 683 cases and controls each. The crude mortality ratio of cases to controls was 1.5 (cases = 21 versus controls = 14; P = 0.19). The case group had a significantly (P0.01) prolonged stay on ICU when analysed as a metric variable. Using logistic regression analysis, we could determine that inadequate antibiotic prophylaxis had no impact on either hospital mortality or prolonged length of stay on ICU (1 day; yes or no).
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17. Increased body mass index and peri-operative risk in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery
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Axel Junger, Matthias Benson, Gunter Hempelmann, Tsovinar Virabjan, Joachim Klasen, Bernd Hartmann, and Andreas Jost
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Critical Care ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,law.invention ,Body Mass Index ,law ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Hospital Mortality ,Obesity ,Risk factor ,Intraoperative Complications ,Aged ,Univariate analysis ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Retrospective cohort study ,Perioperative ,Stepwise regression ,Length of Stay ,Middle Aged ,Intensive care unit ,Surgery ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,Case-Control Studies ,Female ,business ,Body mass index - Abstract
Background: Increased BMI is a well known risk factor for morbidity and mortality in hospitalized nonsurgical patients. However, the published evidence for a comparable effect in surgical patients is scarce. Methods: This retrospective study was designed to assess the attributable effects of increased BMI (>30 kg/m2) on outcome (hospital mortality, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), and incidence of intraoperative cardiovascular events (CVE)) in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery by a computerized anesthesia record-keeping system. The study is based on data-sets of 28,065 patients. Cases were defined as patients with BMI >30; controls (BMI 20-25) were automatically selected according to matching variables (ASA physical status, high risk and urgency of surgery, age and sex) in a stepwise fashion. Differences in outcome measures were assessed using univariate analysis. Stepwise regression models were developed to predict the impact of increased BMI on the different outcome measures. Results: 4,726 patients (16.8%) were found with BMI >30. Matching was successful for 41.5% of the cases, leading to 1,962 cases and controls. The crude mortality rates were 1.1% (cases) vs 1.2% (controls); P =0.50, power=0.88). Admission to ICU was deemed necessary in 6.8% (cases) vs 7.5% (controls), P =0.42, power=0.65, and CVE were detected from the database in 22.3% (cases) vs 21.6% (controls), P =0.30, power=0.60. Using logistic regression analyses, no significant association between higher BMI and outcome measures could be verified. Conclusion: Increased BMI alone was not a factor leading to an increased perioperative risk in non-cardiac surgery. This fact may be due to an elevated level of attention while caring for obese patients.
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18. The incidence and prediction of automatically detected intraoperative cardiovascular events in noncardiac surgery
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Gunter Hempelmann, Joachim Klasen, L. Quinzio, Matthias Benson, Andreas Jost, Axel Junger, Rainer Röhrig, and Bernd Hartmann
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Male ,Revised Cardiac Risk Index ,Blood Pressure ,Logistic regression ,Risk Assessment ,Sex Factors ,Heart Rate ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Monitoring, Intraoperative ,Tachycardia ,Bradycardia ,Odds Ratio ,Medicine ,Humans ,Intraoperative Complications ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Models, Statistical ,Receiver operating characteristic ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Reproducibility of Results ,Retrospective cohort study ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Logistic Models ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,Predictive value of tests ,Anesthesia ,Surgical Procedures, Operative ,Calibration ,Hypertension ,Female ,Hypotension ,Risk assessment ,business ,Algorithms - Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate prognostic models for quality assurance purposes in predicting automatically detected intraoperative cardiovascular events (CVE) in 58458 patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. To this end, we assessed the performance of two established models for risk assessment in anesthesia, the Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) and the ASA physical status classification. We then developed two new models. CVEs were detected from the database of an electronic anesthesia record-keeping system. Logistic regression was used to build a complex and a simple predictive model. Performance of the prognostic models was assessed using analysis of discrimination and calibration. In 5249 patients (17.8%) of the evaluation (n = 29437) and 5031 patients (17.3%) of the validation cohorts (n = 29021), a minimum of one CVE was detected. CVEs were associated with significantly more frequent hospital mortality (2.1% versus 1.0%; P0.01). The new models demonstrated good discriminative power, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.709 and 0.707 respectively. Discrimination of the ASA classification (AUC 0.647) and the RCRI (AUC 0.620) were less. Neither the two new models nor ASA classification nor the RCRI showed acceptable calibration. ASA classification and the RCRI alone both proved unsuitable for the prediction of intraoperative CVEs.The objective of this study was to evaluate prognostic models for quality assurance purposes to predict the occurrence of automatically detected intraoperative cardiovascular events in 58,458 patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Two newly developed models showed good discrimination but, because of reduced calibration, their clinical use is limited. The ASA physical status classification and the Revised Cardiac Risk Index are unsuitable for the prediction of intraoperative cardiovascular events.
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- 2004
19. Computerize anesthesia record keeping in thoracic surgery--suitability of electronic anesthesia records in evaluating predictors for hypoxemia during one-lung ventilation
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Jochen, Sticher, Axel, Junger, Bernd, Hartmann, Matthias, Benson, Andreas, Jost, Martin, Golinski, Stefan, Scholz, and Gunter, Hempelmann
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Adult ,Male ,Electronic Data Processing ,Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted ,Anesthesia, General ,Middle Aged ,Thoracic Surgical Procedures ,Respiration, Artificial ,Body Mass Index ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Risk Factors ,Calibration ,Multivariate Analysis ,Humans ,Female ,Hypoxia ,Algorithms ,Aged ,Monitoring, Physiologic ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the suitability of routine data gathered with a computerized anesthesia record keeping system in investigating predictors for intraoperative hypoxemia (SpO290%) during one-lung ventilation (OLV) in pulmonary surgery.Over a four-year period data of 705 patients undergoing thoracic surgery (pneumonectomy: 78; lobectomy: 292; minor pulmonary resections: 335) were recorded online using an automated anesthesia record-keeping system. Twenty-six patient-related, surgery-related and anesthesia-related variables were studied for a possible association with the occurrence of intraoperative hypoxemia during OLV. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate (logistic regression) analysis (p0.05). The model's discriminative power on hypoxemia was checked with a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Calibration was tested using the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test.An intraoperative incidence of hypoxemia during OLV was found in 67 patients (9.5%). Using logistic regression with a forward stepwise algorithm, body-mass-index (BMI, p = 0.018) and preoperative existing pneumonia (p = 0.043) could be detected as independent predictors having an influence on the incidence of hypoxemia during OLV. An acceptable goodness-of-fit could be observed using cross validation for the model (C = 8.21, p = 0.370, degrees of freedom, df 8; H = 3.21, p = 0.350, df 3), the discriminative power was poor with an area under the ROC curve of 0.58 [0.51-0.66].In contrast to conventional performed retrospective studies, data were directly available for analyses without any manual intervention. Due to incomplete information and imprecise definitions of parameters, data of computerized anesthesia records collected in routine are helpful but not satisfactory in evaluating risk factors for hypoxemia during OLV.
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- 2003
20. Intra-operative tachycardia and peri-operative outcome
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Helge Braun, Gunter Hempelmann, Matthias Benson, Bernd Hartmann, C. Fuchs, Joachim Klasen, Axel Junger, Rainer Röhrig, and Andreas Jost
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Tachycardia ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adrenergic beta-Antagonists ,Comorbidity ,law.invention ,Coronary artery disease ,law ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Hospital Mortality ,Intraoperative Complications ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,Retrospective cohort study ,Perioperative ,Length of Stay ,medicine.disease ,Intensive care unit ,Cardiac surgery ,Logistic Models ,Cardiothoracic surgery ,Anesthesia ,Case-Control Studies ,Cardiology ,Surgery ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Abdominal surgery - Abstract
Intra-operative tachycardia is a common adverse event, often recorded as an indicator for process quality in quality assurance projects in anaesthesia. This retrospective study is based on data sets of 28,065 patients recorded with a computerised anaesthesia record-keeping system from 23 February 1999 to 31 December 2000 at a tertiary care university hospital. Cases were defined as patients with intra-operative tachycardia; references were automatically selected according to matching variables (high-risk surgery, severe congestive heart failure, severe coronary artery disease, significant carotid artery stenosis and/or history of stroke, renal failure, diabetes mellitus and urgency of surgery) in a stepwise fashion. Main outcome measures were hospital mortality, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and prolonged hospital stay. Differences in outcome measures between the matched pairs were assessed by univariate analysis. Stepwise regression models were developed to predict the impact of intra-operative tachycardia on the different outcome measures. In our study 474 patients (1.7%) were found to have had intra-operative tachycardia. Matching was successful for 99.4% of the cases, leading to 471 cases and references. The crude mortality rates for the cases and matched references were 5.5% and 2.5%, respectively (P=0.020). Of all case patients, 22.3% were treated in an ICU, compared to 11.0% of the matched references (P=0.001). Hospital stay was prolonged in 25.1% of the patients with tachycardia compared to 15.1% of the matched references (P=0.001). In this study, patients with intra-operative tachycardia who were undergoing non-cardiac surgery had a greater peri-operative risk, leading to increased mortality, greater frequency of admission to an ICU and prolonged hospital stay.
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- 2003
21. The incidence and risk factors for hypotension after spinal anesthesia induction: an analysis with automated data collection
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Gunter Hempelmann, Matthias Benson, Joachim Klasen, Andreas Jost, Axel Junger, Anne Banzhaf, and Bernd Hartmann
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Male ,Medical Records Systems, Computerized ,Arterial hypotension ,Blood Pressure ,Anesthesia, Spinal ,Automated data ,Postoperative Complications ,Risk Factors ,Medicine ,Anesthesia, Obstetrical ,Humans ,Anesthesia ,Risk factor ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Analysis of Variance ,Models, Statistical ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Data Collection ,Spinal anesthesia ,Middle Aged ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Blood pressure ,Logistic Models ,Anesthesia information management system ,Female ,Hypotension ,Complication ,business ,Algorithms ,Preanesthetic Medication - Abstract
We sought to identify factors that are associated with hypotension after the induction of spinal anesthesia (SpA) by using an anesthesia information management system. Hypotension was defined as a decrease of mean arterial blood pressure of more than 30% within a 10-min interval, and relevance was defined as a therapeutic intervention with fluids or pressors within 20 min. From January 1, 1997, to August 5, 2000, data sets from 3315 patients receiving SpA were recorded on-line by using the automatic anesthesia record keeping system NarkoData. Hypotension meeting the predefined criteria occurred in 166 (5.4%) patients. Twenty-nine patient-, surgery-, and anesthesia-related variables were studied by using univariate analysis for a possible association with the occurrence of hypotension after SpA. Logistic regression with a forward stepwise algorithm was performed to identify independent variables (P0.05). The discriminative power of the logistic regression model was checked with a receiver operating characteristic curve. Calibration was tested with the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test. The univariate analysis identified the following variables to be associated with hypotension after SpA: age, weight, height, body mass index, amount of plain bupivacaine 0.5% used for SpA, amount of colloid infusion before puncture, chronic alcohol consumption, ASA physical status, history of hypertension, urgency of surgery, surgical department, sensory block height of anesthesia, and frequency of puncture. In the multivariate analysis, independent factors for relevant hypotension after SpA consisted of three patient-related variables ("chronic alcohol consumption," odds ratio [OR] = 3.05; "history of hypertension," OR = 2.21; and the metric variable "body mass index," OR = 1.08) and two anesthesia-related variables ("sensory block height," OR = 2.32; and "urgency of surgery," OR = 2.84). The area of 0.68 (95% confidence interval, 0.63-0.72) below the receiver operating characteristic curve was significantly greater than 0.5 (P0.01). The goodness-of-fit test showed a good calibration of the model (H = 4.3, df = 7, P = 0.7; C = 7.3, df = 8, P = 0.51). This study contributes to the identification of patients with a high risk for hypotension after SpA induction, with the risk increasing two- or threefold with each additional risk factor.By using automated data collection, 5 (chronic alcohol consumption, history of hypertension, body mass index, sensory block height, and urgency of surgery) of 29 variables could be detected as having an association with hypotension after spinal anesthesia induction. The knowledge of these risk factors should be useful in increasing vigilance in those patients most at risk for hypotension, in allowing a more timely therapeutic intervention, or even in suggesting the use of alternative methods of spinal anesthesia, such as titrated continuous or small-dose spinal anesthesia.
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- 2002
22. The use of an anesthesia information management system for prediction of antiemetic rescue treatment at the postanesthesia care unit
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Ehrenfried Schindler, Matthias Benson, A. Junger, Gunter Hempelmannn, Aida Béye-Basse, Bernd Hartmann, Andreas Jost, and G. V. Dietrich
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Adult ,Male ,Medical Records Systems, Computerized ,Nausea ,Pacu ,Risk Factors ,Medicine ,Humans ,Anesthesia ,Anesthetics ,biology ,business.industry ,Medical record ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Logistic Models ,ROC Curve ,Anesthesia Recovery Period ,Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting ,Vomiting ,Hospital Information Systems ,Antiemetics ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Risk assessment ,Postoperative nausea and vomiting ,Recovery Room - Abstract
UNLABELLED We used an anesthesia information management system (AIMS) to devise a score for predicting antiemetic rescue treatment as an indicator for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Furthermore, we wanted to investigate whether data collected with an AIMS are suitable for comparable clinical investigations. Over a 3-yr period (January 1, 1997, to December 31, 1999), data sets of 27,626 patients who were admitted postoperatively to the PACU were recorded online by using the automated anesthesia record keeping system NarkoData(R) (IMESO GmbH, Huttenberg, Germany). Ten patient-related, 5 operative, 15 anesthesia-related, and 4 postoperative variables were studied by using forward stepwise logistic regression. Not only can the probability of having PONV in the PACU be estimated from the 3 previously described patient-related (female gender, odds ratio [OR] = 2.45; smoker, OR = 0.53; and age, OR = 0.995) and one operative variables (duration of surgery, OR = 1.005), but 3 anesthesia-related variables (intraoperative use of opioids, OR = 4.18; use of N(2)O, OR = 2.24; and IV anesthesia with propofol, OR = 0.40) are predictive. In implementing an equation for risk calculation into the AIMS, the individual risk of PONV can be calculated automatically. IMPLICATIONS The aim of this study was to investigate predictors for postoperative nausea and vomiting by using online anesthesia records. With the help of computerized data evaluation, 7 of 34 variables could be detected as risk factors. By implementing an automatic score into the record keeping system, an individual risk calculation could be made possible.
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- 2001
23. Zur Persönlichkeit der Spitzensportler in der Schweiz
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Andreas Jost
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Die Moglichkeiten, sportliche Leistungen noch weiter zu steigern, werden heute eher von der Psychologie erwartet, da die Sportmedizin ihre Moglichkeiten bereits fast vollstandig ausnutzt und ihre Grenzen fast schon erreicht hat. In der Psychologie der Leistung gilt, dass auch das Leistungsverhalten ein Aspekt der Personlichkeit ist. Das Leistungsverhalten kann nicht isoliert von andern Personlichkeitszugen betrachtet werden. Die Personlichkeit des Spitzensportlers wird also zum dringenden Forschungsthema der Sportwissenschaft. Diese Arbeit wurde angeregt durch Untersuchungen von Vanek (1967, 1968), wobei wir folgende Hypothesen zugrunde legen: Hypothese 1 Die Personlichkeit der Spitzensportler unterscheidet sich messbar von der Personlichkeit der Nichtsportler. Hypothese 2 Die Personlichkeit der Spitzensportler einer Sportart ist messbar verschieden von der Personlichkeit der Spitzensportler aus andern Sportarten. Hypothese 3 Allen Spitzensportlern sind gewisse messbare Merkmale gemeinsam.
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