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    Management in Multitraumatized Patients with Head and Spine Injuries

    The management of polytraumatlzed patients makes great demands on the medical staff as well as on its technical or organizing qualiflcation. From the neurosurgical point of view head and spine injuries might b...

    R. Kalff, J. Pospiech, U. Obertacke, B. Hoffmann in Recent Advances in Neurotraumatology (1993)

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    Extravascular Lung Water: Clinical Methodology

    The adult respiratory distress Syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by low-pressure interstitial lung edema due to an increase of capillary permeability. Different methods have been established to measure the extr...

    A. Seekamp, U. Obertacke, J. A. Sturm in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)

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    Morphometric Description of the Study Population

    Clinical and laboratory data of 57 patients from two study centers (Hannover, 32; Essen, 25) who complied with the criteria of entry for the study described above (see Sect. “Protocol of the Study”) were evalu...

    Th. Joka, J. A. Sturm, U. Obertacke, G. Regel in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)

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    Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome As a Manifestation of a General Permeability Defect

    Current operational definitions rely for the most part on three features of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): hypoxia, decreased pulmonary compliance, and diffuse roentgenographic lung infiltrati...

    E. Kreuzfelder, U. Obertacke, B. Neumann… in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)

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    Bronchoalveolar Lavage

    Diseases of the lung interstitium characterized by inflammatory processes in the area of the alveoli and the alveolar interstitium (alveolitis) can be noninvasively diagnosed or assessed only by radiological p...

    U. Obertacke, Th. Joka, M. Reuter… in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)

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    Development of a Linear Scoring System

    Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was first defined as a clinical entity in 1967 by Ashbaugh et al. [1] using the following clinical parameters: severe dyspnea, tachypnea, cyanosis, refractoriness to O2-...

    U. Obertacke, Th. Joka, C. Neumann in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)

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    Morphological and Functional Changes of Alveolar Cells

    Inflammatory alveolocapillary membrane disorder is the indicating syndrome and pathophysiological substrate of the acute lung failure in adults known as adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which essent...

    Th. Joka, U. Obertacke, J. Bruch, M. Reuter… in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)

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    Treatment and Clinical Course

    The 57 patients in this study (32/25) were treated at two centers, Essen and Hannover, following a common schematic protocol. All patients were included in all indicated types of therapy which fulfilled the re...

    Th. Joka, U. Obertacke, J. A. Sturm, M. L. Nerlich in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (1991)