[Value of routine skull radiography for etiology of simple febrile seizures (author's transl)]. / Röntgen Die Bedeutung des Schädelröntgens für die ätiologische Klärung des einfachen Fieberkrampfes.

The dramatic episode of a febrile seizure, happening short and generalized with normal children, has a good prognosis. The examiner has to perform a very exact differential diagnosis in which an exact history and physical examination have to be on the first place, followed by serological examinations, the EEG and occasionally a lumbar punction. Skull radiography, as we wanted to show in the paper, has lost its place in general examination and should be reserved for special cases.

[Indomethacin in IRDS with PDA phenomenon (author's transl)]. / Indomethacineinsatz beim PDA-IRDS-Phänomen.

16 premature babies (all needing artificial ventilation, 15 suffering from idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome and one from severe apneic spells) received a single or double dose of indomethacin once the symptoms of an open ductus arteriosus further complicated their disease. Within 24 hours four patients showed closure of their duct, three other patients a very distinct improvement of their hemodynamic situation. There was no change of the ductus dependent symptoms in 8 other babies. One baby presented with a marked a worsening of its clinical situation and finally required surgical closure of its duct. There is quite a discrepancy found in the results reported from different centers. Starting from our results possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed.

[Current resistence situation in a surgical and urological department]. / Zur aktuellen Resistenzsituation an einer Chirurgischen und einer Urologischen Klinik

Spectrum and sensitivity of bacteria were studied at the Surgical (534 positive wound smears) and the Urological Clinics (7879 urine specimens). Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt/M., during the period of 1969-1971 and in 1973. The most common organisms identified in wound smears were E. coli, followed by Staph. areus, Aerobacter and Proteus species. E. coli were also predominant in urine, but followed by Enterococci, Proteus and Pseudomonas. E. coli, Proteus species and especially Pseudomonas increased in number whereas Enterococci decreased. There was no pronounced increase in resistance to 9 current antibiotics as well as to chemotherapeutics during the observation period which was particularly striking in the case of Ampicillin used on a large scale. The results of our study support the presently employed therapeutic method using bactericidal antibiotics of the penicillin group in strict indications.