Medical conference in the surrounding area of Berlin on the Landgut Stober estate
Gross Behnitz The motto on Saturday was “10 Years – A Cauldron of Color – Pitfalls from Emergency Medicine”. In lectures at the Stober estate in Groß Behnitz, we will present case studies from emergency medicine in order to use them to discuss current problems, new techniques or rare clinical pictures. Around 150 doctors from Germany were there. The audience had to prove their nerve in the face of extremely explicit photos.
Emergency medics have to make split-second decisions that often determine people's lives. In the mobile ambulance and in the emergency room, they are confronted with injuries that are extreme and require immediate action. Petra Wilke has just taken over the emergency medicine department at the Havelland Clinics and is now co-managing director of the Havelland Rescue Service GmbH. She brought the “Emergency Medicine Symposium” to Nauen.
SHOCKING EXAMPLES IN A DOCTOR'S EVERYDAY LIFE
It is astonishing for the visitor how the emergency physicians deal with situations in their everyday work that are sometimes difficult to understand for laypeople. When it was discussed which medical measures had priority for motorcycle accident victims with heavily bleeding wounds and open fractures, doctors even quoted Schiller's “Robbers”: “The catastrophe is not what is coming, but what is there.”
After eating salmon past its expiration date, a woman first complained of vomiting and diarrhea, then of visual disturbances and muscle weakness. Doctor Martin Pin: “A case of botulism.” The bacterium Clostridium botulinum produces one of the most toxic toxins in the world, which is also injected into the forehead areas of the rich and beautiful as Botox. It causes muscle paralysis. “We have about one or two cases of botulism a year,” said Martin Pin.
LECTURES WITH FUNNY NAMES
Medics have their own dark sense of humor. Lecture names like “Big Bang,” “Now the Party Really Gets Started,” “When the Bomb Bursts” or “Explosive Mixture” were often just friendly-sounding announcements for topics beyond everyday emergency situations. Katja Trommler and Richard Anders' lecture “Let it rip - but broken pieces don't always bring luck” was about serious skull injuries. Their examples silenced the audience.
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR
An old man tried to pump up the wheel of his wheelbarrow with the compressor air at the gas station - the wheelbarrow burst and almost blew his entire skull off. A suicide put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He survived, but the doctors had an immense puzzle job ahead of them. “The emergency medical symposium should find a new home in the Stober estate. “It will continue in 2019,” says Petra Wilke.
By Carsten Scheibe
Source:
http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Havelland/Nauen/Der-schwarze-Humor-der-Notfallaerzte