This content is machine translated Congresses in times of COVID-19 Safety first: The virus meets with The autumn congress of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SGAIM) took place on 17. and September 18, the largest medical congress since the nationwide lockdown took place away…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Psychosomatics for headaches Breaking the vicious circle Causes and causal relationships of headaches are complex. Isabelle Rittmeyer, MD, Chief of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Zurich Rehab Center Davos, focused on psychosomatic aspects at the SGAIM Fall Congress…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated General Internal Medicine Update Refresher in Zurich When the intestine rebels Norovirus is a “pest” that strikes again every year, especially in the winter months – but it is far from being the only pathogen causing infectious diarrhea. Antibiotic-associated illness caused…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated SGAIM Spring Congress 2018, Basel Nutritional therapy for short bowel syndrome Short bowel syndrome (KDS) refers to a form of bowel failure that occurs postoperatively after extensive bowel resection or due to other functional limitation of bowel segments. Depending on the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Treatment of hypertension in old age The blood pressure target values are to be determined individually The first SGAIM Spring Congress in Basel also hosted the Swiss Geriatric Society. Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Schönenberger, Head of Geriatrics, Spital Tiefenau, held a workshop on the therapy of…
