Manfred Weiss

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Bundles Adherence and Their Limits in Surgical Patients with Septic Shock in an ICU

Manfred Weiss, Florian Lautenschlager & Franz Porzsolt · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2012

Aims: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines aimed to reduce heterogeneity of conventional therapy and mortality. The present study was performed in septic shock to describe the adherence to the 2008 SSC guidelines, confounding factors, and limitations. Study Design: Pros...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2013/1961

Costs of Additional Treatment Success (COATS) Based on Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT) is a Simplified Calculation Method to Facilitate Physicians Medical Decisions with Regards to Monetary Costs

Manfred Weiss, Frank Grom & Franz Porzsolt · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2012

Aims: Due to limited resources, to provide a simple and transparent tool for physicians to facilitate budget-related, medical decisions in any patient. Study Design: Comparative study. Methodology: Several articles with topics referring to the 2008 ”Surviving Sepsis Campaign” gui...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1379

Relative Impact of the 2012 SSC Guideline Recommendations under the Scope of Numbers Needed to Treat (NNTs)

Florian Lautenschlager, Franz Porzsolt & Manfred Weiss · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2014

The surviving sepsis campaign (SSC) guidelines aimed to reduce mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock. The present study was performed to find out which and how many recommendations of the 2012 SSC update were based on significant effects from clinical studies in adult patie...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14057