Eine botanische Excursion Rum. St. Georg bis Nedee

Georg Bauer

St Georg modular knee prosthesis. A two-and-a-half to six-year follow-up.

The St Georg modular knee replacement has been studied in 59 cases with an observation period ranging from 28 to 73 months. In 47% of the knees both compartments were replaced; five of the six poor results were in this group. These were revised to a hinge arthroplasty or, in one case, to an arthrodesis. Other complications were few and insignificant. There were no infections. We concluded that ...

Michael St. Pierre, Georg Breuer (eds): Simulation in der Medizin – innovativ, effektiv und zukunftsweisend

Das Buch „Simulation in der Medizin – innovativ, effektiv und zukunftsweisend“ (Springer-Verlag) kommt gerade zur rechten Zeit: Die Medizinischen Fakultäten der D-ACH-Region, also in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, haben seit einiger Zeit den Nutzen simulationsbasierter Ausbildung kennen und schätzen gelernt. Nationale Lernzielkataloge existieren (CH und A) oder werden mit Nachdruck au...

Survivorship of the St Georg Sled medial unicompartmental knee replacement beyond ten years.

There have been several reports of good survivorship and excellent function at ten years with fixed-bearing unicompartmental knee replacement. However, little is known about survival beyond ten years. From the Bristol database of over 4000 knee replacements, we identified 203 St Georg Sled unicompartmental knee replacements (174 patients) which had already survived ten years. The mean age of th...

Editorial Atypical Speech Georg

One of the most important aspects of spoken language is its large degree of variability. Variability in speech is caused by many different sources, for instance, changes of the acoustic environment or transmission channel and differences between speakers or various speaking styles. Successful speech processing systems typically combine several different means to cope with the unwanted variabili...