title: [Development and status of intensive care medicine in internal medicine at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig].
abstract: Issuing from the accomplishments of Köhler for the development of the intensive medicine in internal medicine-in 1964 he performed the first long-term respiration at the then Medical Clinic of the Karl Marx University, in 1969 he institutionalized the young subdiscipline at the clinic, in 1978 he founded the department for intensive medicine and is at work by his decisions concerning the development of young scientists, by the handbook "Intensive Medicine. Internal Medicine and Adjacent Subjects" as well as a member of the presidium of the GDR Society for Internal Medicine for the development of the internal intensive medicine-a description of the development of the department, its achievements and problems is given. The promotion of the intensive medicine by Köhler results, as we think, also from the comprehension that it has the duty to perform a function integrating the subdisciplines, which the modern internal medicine oriented to organs and systems threatens to lose, which, however, makes its self-apprehension, which the patient wishes and the teaching is demanding. From this and from the charge for a highly specialized care of patients who life-threateningly fell ill with internal diseases as well as from the duty to create a scientific forerunning results the stringent necessity of the development of the non-operative, in reality internal intensive medicine in the clinics for internal medicine of the county hospitals and university institutions as well as the greater identification of the internist with the subdiscipline in the district hospitals dealing with multidisciplinary intensive medicine.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Intensivmedizin, Bereiches Medizin, Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Engelmann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D005859:Germany, East; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000639:trends*; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000639:trends*
vernacular_title: Entwicklung und Stand der Intensivmedizin in der Inneren Medizin an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.