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  The CARE Guidelines (13.09.2013)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2013.0603

  A case report is a detailed narrative that describes, for medical, scientific, or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or several patients. Case reports present clinical observations customarily collected in healthcare delivery...

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  Causes and Early Diagnosis of Vitamin B12 Deficiency (03.10.2008)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2008.0680

  Vitamin B12 deficiency is more widespread in the population than has been assumed so far (1, 2). Since a deficiency in this vitamin can lead to irreversible neurological damage, early diagnosis is essential (3, e1, e2). In recent years, new and...

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  Point-of-Care Testing in Hospitals and Primary Care (20.08.2010)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2010.0561

  The expression “point-of-care testing” (POCT) refers to the use of the procedures of laboratory medicine in the immediate vicinity of the patient (Box 1 gif ppt). This is a recent development in laboratory medicine driven by the clinical need to...

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  Susceptible, Intermediate, and Resistant – The Intensity of Antibiotic Action (26.09.2008)

  http://www.aerzteblatt.de/10.3238/arztebl.2008.0657

  In the microbiology laboratory, the identified infectious organisms are usually tested for their degree of resistance to various anti-infective substances in order to prevent the administration of ineffective treatments. The treating physician is...

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  Typhus and Other Rickettsioses (15.05.2009)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2009.0348

  Since mankind has existed, fleas and lice have been its permanent companions. In addition to the small volume of blood sucked and the allergic pruritus, these ectoparasites are important transmitters of communicable diseases. Fleas are well known for...

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  Binge Drinking in Childhood and Adolescence (08.05.2009)

  http://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article?id=64637

  According to recent reports by the German Federal Commissioner for Narcotic Drugs (Bundesdrogenbeauftragte), the number of adolescents (aged up to 20 years) treated in hospital for alcohol poisoning more than doubled between 2000 and 2007, from 9500...

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  Diagnosis and Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (01.02.2008)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2008.0085

  Bleeding of variable severity can occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is defined as bleeding proximal to the ligament of Treitz. General observations The incidence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding is...

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  Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology (17.06.2011)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2011.0407

  The use of ionizing radiation in humans is uniformly regulated, for children as well as adults, in the German Federal Law on X-Ray Examinations, extensively revised in its most recent, 2002, version and the 2001 edition of the German Federal Law on...

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  Knock-Out Drugs (15.05.2009)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2009.0341

  Press reports of the use of knock-out drugs to facilitate crimes have become more common in recent years, beginning in the USA, but now more commonly in Europe as well. Some years ago, the best-known cases in Germany involved robbery and other crimes...

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  Hantaviruses as Zoonotic Pathogens in Germany (08.07.2013)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2013.0461

  The threat to human health from transferred zoonotic viruses is a highly current debate. In addition to the repeated transmission of influenzaviruses from animals to humans, the threat from the new coronaviruses is also under intense discussion....

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