Psychiatric emergencies are stressful and time-consuming for physicians. Comprehensive diagnostic assessment is often not feasible in psychiatric emergency situations. Primary interventions target symptoms and syndromes. Treatments for psychiatric ...

Due to new offers in prenatal diagnostics pregnant women are forced to make choices. In Switzerland physicians are obliged to inform previous to prenatal tests and to obtain informed consent. Considering the complexity of this information and the ...

Telemedicine comprises different concepts aiming to close a spatial distance between practitioner, medical staff and patient. Its functionality can include mere data transmission but extend as well to triggering alarms or enable consultation and therapy ...

We report the case of a 38-year patient who presented in our outpatient clinic for cardiac evaluation and assessment as volunteer firefighter. The patient had an asymptomatic sinustachycardia, which was diagnosed at the age of 15. After we excluded ...