Neurocritical Care: A White Elephant or an Unavoidable Obligation?

Models-based practice: great white hope or white elephant?

Is health a right or an obligation?

Imagine that your waist size is measured annually and your data from annual health checkups are stored in the database. A big brother keeps track of you and dictates what you should eat and how much when it exceeds a certain limit. Not a novel by George Orwell, it is an essential part of Japan's health care reform 2008. ''Disease management programmes (DMP)'' aimed at chronic diseases with a ho...

Neurocritical care update.

This update comprises six important topics under neurocritical care that require reevaluation. For post-cardiac arrest brain injury, the evaluation of the injury and its corresponding therapy, including temperature modulation, is required. Analgosedation for target temperature management is an essential strategy to prevent shivering and minimizes endogenous stress induced by catecholamine surge...

Home visits - central to primary care, tradition or an obligation? A qualitative study

BACKGROUND Home visits are claimed to be a central element of primary care. However, the frequency with which home visits are made is declining both internationally and in Germany despite the increase in the number of chronically ill elderly patients. Given this, the question arises as to how to ensure sufficient primary health care for this vulnerable patient group. The aim of this study was t...

Erratum to: Neurocritical care update

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40560-016-0141-8.].