Peter Lawin

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Peter Lawin (born January 20, 1930 in Königsberg , † June 27, 2002 in Le Tignet , France) was a German surgeon , anesthetist and intensive care doctor .

Life

Studied and worked in Altona

Lawin studied medicine in Erlangen , Paris and Munich , after which he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He completed his specialist medical training in Hamburg in surgery and anesthesiology . In the autumn of 1962 he was appointed chief physician of the newly established anesthesia department at the Altona General Hospital in Hamburg. He presented a concept to the Hamburg health authority according to which the anesthesia department should be equipped with a guard station. (The Eppendorf University Medical Centeralready had one.) The department head of the medical hospital service of the health authority approved the interdisciplinary operative intensive care unit, which was attached to the anesthesia department. It went into operation on January 2, 1963. As head physician in Hamburg, he published the practice of intensive care in 1968 , which in part arose from the continuation of the training and tasks of nurses in intensive care units published by him in the journal Die Sister . In 1970 Lawin completed his habilitation .

Activity in Münster

When the Medical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster established a full chair for anesthesiology in the mid-1970s , Lawin took over this task on June 1, 1976. The university anesthesia department was given organizational and medical responsibility for operational operations for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany Transfer to intensive care unit. 40 doctors, 61 nurses, three secretaries, three medical technicians and a bio-engineer were employed in the facility, which was now allowed to bear the name “Clinic and Polyclinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine”. From 1987 to 1992 Lawin was also the medical director of the medical facilities at the University of Münster. In 1995 he retired there.

Awards

Lawin was honored internationally for his achievements in the further medical development of intensive care medicine: The Polish Anesthesia Society accepted him as an honorary member in 1983. Also in 1983 the Medical Academy in Krakow awarded him the title of honorary doctor of medicine . Lawin was President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care Medicine from 1988 to 1991; two years later he became an honorary member. In 1990 the American Society for Intensive Care Medicine awarded him the title “Fellow in Critical Care Medicine” (FCCM).

Publications (selection)

  • The excretion of the pregnanediol compared to that of the estriol in the cycle and in early pregnancy. Munich 1956. (Dissertation)
  • as ed. with the collaboration of Hans-Nikolaus Herden: Practice of intensive treatment . Thieme, Stuttgart 1968.
  • with Hans-Nikolaus Herden: Anesthesia primer . Thieme, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-13-499301-5 .
  • as editor with Dietrich Paravicini: Hemodilution and autotransfusion in the perioperative phase , Thieme, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-13-668601-2 .
  • Intensive care medicine in Germany: history and development , Springer, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-540-42461-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Schüttler: 50 Years of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , p. 196
  2. ↑ a b Intensive care physician Prof. Dr. Peter Lawin dies Press release of the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universität Münster of June 28, 2002, accessed on November 21, 2019
  3. ↑ Jürgen Schüttler: 50 Years of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , p. 527
personal data
SURNAME Lawin, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German intensive care physician
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2002
Place of death Le Tignet