Kaspar Staub

If immunisation is too low, dropping temperatures in fall 2021 may lead to epidemic resurgence – as in 1918, 1957 and 2020

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30014

Now that most countries have been through several COVID-19 waves, the question is what challenges we might face in the second half of the year 2021 and in the years ahead.

Jörg Beyer, Dominik Berthold, Peter-Karl Bode, Richard Cathomas, Christian D. Fankhauser, Stefanie Fischer, Silke Gillessen, Tobias Gross, Thomas Hermanns, Friedemann Honecker, Anja Lorch, Aurelius Omlin, Alexandros Papachristofilou, Beat Roth, Christian Rothermundt, Roland Seiler, Martin Spahn, Frank Stenner, Emanuel Bührer

Swiss germ-cell cancer consensus recommendations

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30023

High cure rates can be achieved in testis cancer even in patients with widely metastatic disease. Consultations for expert opinion as well as treatment at expert centres offer the best chances of success.

Yan Guex-Crosier, Julie Di-Lucca, Peter Häusermann, Emmanuel Laffitte, Ieva Saulite, Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier, Kaspar Schürch, Kathrin Thormann, Dagmar Simon

Management of dupilumab-associated ocular surface diseases in atopic dermatitis patients

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30020

Ocular surface disease presents a particular adverse event of treatment with dupilumab in dermatology.

Helen Anwander, Karsten Klingberg, Joël Gerber, Piotr Bednarski, Aristomenis Exadaktylos, Martin Müller

Major trauma during COVID-19 in a level 1 trauma centre in Switzerland – a cohort study comparing the years 2020 and 2019

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30010

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer patients with major trauma were admitted; however, they were more severely injured and more often died within 30 days.

Ido Zamberg, Thomas Mavrakanas, Thomas Ernandez, Vincent Bourquin, Michael Zellweger, Nicolas Marangon, Françoise Raimbault, Rebecca Winzeler, Anne Iten, Nathalie Hammer, Belen Ponte, Sebastian Carballo, Pierre-Yves Martin, Patrick Saudan

Management and outcomes of patients on maintenance dialysis during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland 

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30006

The COVID-19 outbreak represents an unprecedented challenge for dialysis facilities worldwide, with high infection and case fatality rates. Early and strict mitigation measures enforced at Geneva University Hospitals in Switzerland seemed to be effective in controlling the spread of infection among patients on maintenance dialysis.

Yuki Tomonaga, Kyra Denise Zens, Phung Lang, Rita Born, Matthias Schwenkglenks, and the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network

Productivity losses due to influenza and influenza-like illness in Switzerland: results of the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network in a non-pandemic era

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30022

The costs of lost productivity due to influenza and influenza-like illnesses in Switzerland are substantial and may vary considerably between different years, regions and age classes.

Hugo Teixeira Farinha, Jérôme Gilgien, Luca Di Mare, Pierre Fournier, Riadh Ksontini, Andrew Munday, Cosimo Scarpa, Nicolas Demartines

Appendicitis and cholecystitis during the COVID-19 outbreak: a multicentre experience

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30017

The aim of this study was to assess diagnosis severity, perioperative management and outcomes of two common urgent general surgery situations, appendicitis and cholecystitis, during the COVID-19 outbreak in a region with a high incidence of COVID.

Kathrin Zürcher, Catrina Mugglin, Franziska Suter-Riniker, Peter M. Keller, Matthias Egger, Sandro Müller, Michael Fluri, Matthias Hoffmann, Lukas Fenner

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers from outpatient facilities and retirement or nursing homes in a Swiss canton

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30021

Seroprevalence among healthcare workers was low, but higher among nursing staff of retirement or nursing homes. Healthcare workers at private practices were able to protect themselves well during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guy Haller, Christoph Heim, Kaspar Meier, Nicola Clerici, Christophe Combescure, Michael T. Ganter, Jürg Schliessbach, Christoph Kindler, Urs Eichenberger, Christian Kern

Physician anaesthesia providers in Switzerland today and tomorrow: results of the National Anaesthesia Workforce Study (NAWOS)

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30003

Anaesthesiologists are heavily involved in both the treatment of patients with respiratory complications of SARS-CoV2 infection and the care of surgical patients, the number of which is expected to rise steadily in upcoming years. Due to the upcoming high retirement rate of anaesthesiologists, Switzerland is likely to face a shortage of anaesthesiologists in the near future.

Supplementum 251: Abstracts of the annual congress of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology

Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30015