[Temporary suppression of tremor by remifentanil in a patient with Parkinson's disease during cataract extraction under local anesthesia]. / Vorübergehende Beseitigung des Tremors bei M. Parkinson durch Remifentanil während einer Kataraktoperation in Lokalanästhesie.

A patient with Parkinson's disease refused both anti-Parkinson medication and general anaesthesia. Low dose remifentanil infusion suppressed her otherwise severe tremor, and the operation was performed uneventfully under local anaesthesia.

[A method for prediction of outcome in patients with critical abdominal diseases under artificial ventilation (author's transl)]. / Ein Prognoseverfahren für Beatmungsfälle in der abdominellen Intensivmedizin.

Patients critically ill from abdominal diseases under controlled ventilation showed statistically significant differences in some vital signs and measurements immediately after admission to the intensive care unit, when grouped according to survivors (34 patients) and nonsurvivors (40 patients). On the basis of a stepwise linear discriminant analysis a practicable method of prognosis from data of the first 24 hours could be achieved, which enables a correct prediction of outcome in 91% of the survivors and 79% of the nonsurvivors.

[Incidence of gastric mucosal changes in multiple injuries]. / Zur Häufigkeit von Magenschleimhautveränderungen beim Polytrauma.

In a prospective study the frequency of gastric mucosal lesions was investigated in patients with polytrauma. 23 out of 24 patients had mucosal lesions of different degrees of severity. 5 had petechiae only, 9 developed erosions and 9 ulcers. 11 had symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding, 3 had to be operated.