Risk for patients in the intensive care unit clearly reduced

To get life-threatening diseases under control, patients in the intensive care unit usually are administered many medications at the same time. Even for experts, it is difficult to keep track of the variety of possible side effects and interactions. The team headed by Dr Thilo Bertsche, director of the cooperation unit for clinical pharmacy at Heidelberg University Hospital, has now shown that physicians can reduce serious events resulting from drug interactions by about half with the help of the 'AiDKlinik' drug information system. The results of the study were published in the prestigious journal 'Intensive Care Medicine'...

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