Herwald Heiko (Lund University): Publications

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Lund University

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Lund, Scania, Sweden

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17th/18th Century Philosophy

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with Philip van der Eijk, Roman M. Marek, Detlev Ganten, Olaf Nohr, Damir Smiljanić, Dirk Lanzerath, Michael Medzech, Alexander Krämer, Christoph Markschies, Robert Jütte, Wolfgang Uwe Eckart, Angelika C. Messner, Hedwig H. Gupta, Christian S. Kessler, Ananda S. Chopra, Britta Rutert, Ohle Wrogemann, Verena Keck, Franziska A. Herbst, Gabriele Laschinski, Ivar Roots, Karl Sperling, Frank Rühli, Nicole Bender, Antoine Flahault, Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Achim D. Gruber, Bettina Hitzer, Julian C. Hughes, Klaus Reinhardt, Volker Hess, Jan Paul Heisig, Jianghong Li, Jutta Allmendinger, Ortwin Renn, Ilona Kickbusch, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Susanne Jöbges, Peter-Paul Bänziger, Konrad Reinhart, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, Andreas Heinz, Natascha Plankermann, Enno Hartmann, Susan Wanzenberg-Thies, Ortwin Stein, Petra Radtke, Katharina Luise Meier, Petra Albrecht, Doreen Fiedler, Franziska Bonatz, Lorena Koch, Natascha Michel, and Kristin Prüssner

In Philip Eijk, Detlev Ganten & Roman Marek (eds.), Was ist Gesundheit?: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur, De Gruyter. pp. 497-516. 2021.
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Sepsis und die COVID-19-Pandemie: Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Weiterentwicklung des Gesundheitssystems in Deutschland
with Konrad Reinhart and Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek

In Philip Eijk, Detlev Ganten & Roman Marek (eds.), Was ist Gesundheit?: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur, De Gruyter. pp. 434-449. 2021.

Sepsis and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Chances for Developing a Better Health System in Germany. Sepsis is the most serious complication of infectious diseases including patients critically ill with COVID-19. In 2017, sepsis was estimated to affect close to 50 million people and to cause or contribute to 11 million deaths, with over 3 million of those deaths being in children or adolescents.TheWHO considers that most deaths from sepsis are preventable and therefore urges all member sta…Read more
Sepsis and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Chances for Developing a Better Health System in Germany. Sepsis is the most serious complication of infectious diseases including patients critically ill with COVID-19. In 2017, sepsis was estimated to affect close to 50 million people and to cause or contribute to 11 million deaths, with over 3 million of those deaths being in children or adolescents.TheWHO considers that most deaths from sepsis are preventable and therefore urges all member states to integrate sepsis in their national health strategy. However, this is not yet the case for Germany, although - compared to other western industrial countries - sepsis mortality rates in Germany are very high. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the world with the most serious health threat in living memory, which until July 2021 resulted in more than 4 million deaths and unprecedented social and economic disruption. It has reminded us that infectious diseases still present a major global health threat. In contrast to the poor recognition of sepsis from other infections, the response to the pandemic has also been unprecedented in most countries in terms of instituting effective public health measures, and the global scientific community has come together to produce robust research evidence and novel vaccines in record time. Thus, a positive legacy for the COVID‑19 pandemic in Germany and around the globe would reduce the global burden of sepsis by making pandemic preparedness, infection prevention and control, sepsis and antimicrobial resistance integral parts of national infection control and management strategies.