Department of Anaesthesiology and operative Intensive Care (Katharinenhospital)

• Anaesthesia
  
  • Airway management

• Surgical Intensive Care
  
  • Special ventilation therapy
  • Renal and liver replacement therapy (haemofiltration, MARS)
  • Differentiated ventilation therapy (lung protective ventilation, storage treatment, Partial-Lung-Assist PLA, high frequency oscillation)

• Emergency medicine
  
  • Leading emergency physicians, organization of emergency medical service with the Department of General Administration and Hospitals of the city of Stuttgart (AK 54)
  • Occupancy of an intensive care transport vehicle

• Pain therapy
• Polytrauma treatment for all ages

• Outpatient anaesthesia
• Pain therapy

• Management of difficult airway (in general and particularly in orofacial and pharyngo-laryngeal cancer surgery)
• Jet ventilation in ENT, airway management in tracheal operations
• Carotid surgery under regional anaesthesia
• Regional pain therapy in trauma surgery
• Conventional and ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia
• Combined anaesthesia in general surgery, vascular surgery and urology (general anaesthesia and thoracic PDK)
• Anaesthesia for interventional procedures in neuroradiology
• Anaesthesia for intracranial tumours (some wake craniotomies)
• Anaesthetic management for transfemoral aortic valve replacement and for mitra clips
• Treatment of sepsis and complex coagulation disorders

• Carotid surgery under regional anaesthesia, comparative study
• Comparison of various closed suction systems on the ventilator
• Participation in the S3 guideline “Non-invasive ventilation as therapy of acute respiratory insufficiency” (R. Dubb)
• Participation in the S2 guideline “Non-invasive and invasive ventilation as a therapy for chronic respiratory insufficiency” (R. Dubb)
• Participation in the S2 guideline “Prolonged mechanical ventilation” (R. Dubb)

The clinic participates since 1999, in external quality assurance in anaesthesia:

• Two employees of the clinic are members of the working group for external quality assurance in Baden-Württemberg of the state medical association, one employee manages them since the end of 2009
• Together with the University Clinic of Tübingen, the project “Pasi” (Patient Safety System) was developed; here improvements on clinical safety are elaborated in individual case studies by an expert review
• In emergency medicine, the emergency site, takes part since 2004 in the external quality assurance of the State Medical Association
• Participation in the DGU trauma registry
• Internally, special workshops (airway, trauma, resuscitation) in the form of case simulations are carried out
• Participation in project SARI (Surveillance of Antibiotic Consumption and Resistance on Intensive Care Units)