[Emergency treatment in clinical practice in incidents following injections]

A treatment concept is presented which is applicable in particular to emergencies in the office following parenteral drug administration. For physicians with office practices such events are particularly serious, for one thing because they are left to their own devices and may no longer be familiar with emergency procedure, and for another because if insurmountable complications occur the patient's and his/her family's suspicions of incorrect treatment--irrespective of possible litigation--often cannot be convincingly refuted even when they are unfounded. The paper describes the authors' own, jointly revised emergency concept for an orthopedic practice with a broad treatment spectrum. It will probably be generally applicable wherever undesirable side effects following injections--in particular after nerve block--are likely to occur.