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Ahoy! A visit aboard a lifeboat P. 28 112 Dräger Review396 Drägerheft Welcome! When premature babies Dräger Review fight to stay alive P. 38 Fire! 112 Technology for Life 2015 Dry conditions increase the Third issue 2015 risk of forest fires P. 44 Teamwork Together. How cooperation works and what makes it so successful 001_Draeger-112_EN 1 25.09.15 17:12 Contents 112 6 YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE BERT PROBST/IMAGEBROKER, PETERBERT PROBST/IMAGEBROKER, THOMAS, BILD – BSIP/CDC ULLSTEIN Many things are better when done together. That is the evolutionary experience of all living beings. A look at how teamwork functions and what makes it so successful. COVER PHOTO: RICHARD MORRELL/CORBIS; PHOTOS: BIOSPHOTO/NOR RICHARD MORRELL/CORBIS; PHOTOS: PHOTO: COVER Around 100 trillion bacteria live on every human, whether healthy or ill. Some of them are dangerous – more starting on page 32. 20 AMONG US Geology detects deposits of natural resources; mining enables people to use them. The TU Bergakademie Freiberg has been teaching experts from all over 32 the world how to make mining safer and more efficient for 250 years. LITTLE ENEMIES You can’t see them and yet they represent a danger to health, often even to life: Bacteria and viruses are everywhere, including where you least expect them. Their resistance to antibiotics necessitates rethinking. 2 DRÄGER REVIEW 112 | 3 / 2015 EN_02-03_Inhalt_112_NEU-korr.indd 2 28.09.15 15:25 4 38 IMPRINT People going places Hanging by a thread PUBLISHER: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, The Afghan geologist Sayed Mubin At what point is a premature baby viable? Corporate Communications Rasa is doing his master’s degree A look at the threshold area. EDITORIAL ADDRESS: in Freiberg, and Anna Khazigalieva is Moislinger Allee 53–55, 23558 Lübeck, Germany E-mail: [email protected] studying medicine in Vladivostock. 44 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: When forests burn Björn Wölke, An area almost the size of Europe Tel. +49-451-882-2009, Fax +49-451-8827-2009 6 EDITING CONSULTANT: Strength in numbers is destroyed by fire every year – from Nils Schiffhauer Humans only emerged from the prevention to effective firefighting. ART DIRECTION, DESIGN, IMAGE EDITING, darkness into the dawn of civilization AND COORDINATION: Redaktion 4 GmbH through teamwork. Despite this TRANSLATION: long-standing experience, each collabo- 50 Lektornet GmbH ration brings with it new challenges. So near and yet so far PRINT: Dräger+Wullenwever print+media Even for Moscow the Eastern Siberian Lübeck GmbH & Co. KG metropolis of Vladivostok appears to ISSN: 1869-7275 14 be at the end of the world, but committed CODE NUMBER: 90 70 400 Three in one doctors also work here and there is The articles in Dräger Review pro- A new training facility provides modern medical technology. vide information on products and even more realistic live fire training – their possible applications in gen- including smoke gases. After all, eral. They do not constitute any guarantee that a product has specifi c firefighting is becoming ever more 54 properties or is suitable for any spe- demanding. The launderette with a difference cifi c purpose. Specialist personnel are required to make use exclusively When chemical protective suits of the skills they have acquired have protected people from hazardous through their education and train- ing and through practical experience. The views, opinions, 20 substances, professional cleaning and statements expressed by the persons named in the texts In Humboldt’s footsteps makes them almost like new again. as well as by external authors of articles do not necessar- Mining will remain attractive ily represent those of Drägerwerk AG & Co. KG aA. Such views, opinions, and statements are solely the opinions of in Germany even after subsidized the people concerned. Not all of the products named in this coal production ends in 2018. 59 magazine are available worldwide. Equipment packages can vary from country to country. We reserve the right to At a glance make changes to products. Up-to-date information is avail- Products from Dräger found in able from your Dräger representative. © Drägerwerk AG & articles in this issue. Co. KG aA, 2015. All rights reserved. This publication may 28 not be reproduced, stored in a data system, or transmitted Rescue on the high seas in any form or using any method, whether electronic or me- They have been going out when chanical, by means of photocopying, recording, or any other technique, in whole or in part, without the prior permis- others fall in for 150 years: the 60 sion of Drägerwerk AG & Co. KG aA. men from the German Maritime Drug test for the coat pocket Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, manufactures Search and Rescue Association. The new DrugCheck 3000 – as reliable the Fire Training System 8000 (page 14), the Polytron units (page 27), the X-plore series (1300/1700; page 47), as it is practical. the chemical protective suits (CPS 7800/7900; page 55), and the DrugCheck 3000 (page 60). Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, manufactures the Oxylog (page 30), 32 the Babylog VN500 (page 38), and the Primus (page 50). Danger out of nowhere Draeger Medical Systems Inc., Telford/USA, manufactures Medical progress is vulnerable. The the Infi nity Delta XL monitor (page 5). danger not only lurks in viruses like www.draeger.com Ebola and MERS. Multidrug-resistant pathogens also pose a serious threat. DRÄGER REVIEW 112 | 3 / 2015 3 003_Draeger-112_EN 3 25.09.15 17:14 EXPERIENCE FROM AROUND THE WORLD People Going Places PHOTOS: PETER THOMAS, ANATOLY ESHTOKIN; TEXTS: ESHTOKIN; PETER THOMAS, BARBARA SCHAEFER PETER THOMAS, ANATOLY PHOTOS: Sayed Mubin Rasa, geologist lecturer of geology in Sheberghan program offered by the German at Jowzjan University in in the north of the country. I was Association for Internatio nal Sheberghan/Afghanistan also born here. There is no history of Cooperation (GIZ), the German geology or mining in my family – Academic Exchange Service, and “Learning in a real mine was a but I opted to do it nonetheless. the Bergakademie. Young scien- completely new experience for The arid Afghan landscape is rich tists and employees from the Minis- me. I’m studying at the TU Berg- in natural resources, but there is a try of Mining and Oil come akademie Freiberg for two and lack of specialists. There would to Freiberg to do their master’s a half years. Working safely under- be good opportunities for young degree. Maybe in a few years ground, where Dräger technolo- engineers and scientists in the I can play my part in creating a gy is often used, is always a very assembly sector, assuming the cor- strong educational landscape special moment for me. I work rect underlying political conditions. for geologists and mining engineers in Afghanistan as an associate I am delighted about the AMEA in Afghanistan’s high schools.” 4 DRÄGER REVIEW 112 | 3 / 2015 004_Draeger-112_EN 4 25.09.15 17:25 Anna Khazygalieva, medical student in her third semester, Vladivostok/Russia “My dad actually wanted to buy me a restaurant. He said he would come there to eat with his friends. We went to the office that grants licenses. They asked me what kind of establish- ment it would be and I replied: ‘I don’t know; I actually wanted to be a doctor.’ They sent me away and told me I would be better off studying medicine. Although I love traveling, I wanted to study here. Vladivostok has really changed for the better over the years. It has become a modern city. The Far Eastern Federal Uni- versity was founded in 1899, but the institute and the campus have only been there since 2013. I would like to do something worthwhile in my life and help other people. I am already allowed to prepare the injections. I find watching operations most inter- esting of all. There are also students from China, Japan, and Brazil here on the campus on the ‘Russian Island.’ I am still not sure what kind of doctor I would like to be. Diagnostics interests me.” 005_Draeger-112_EN 5 25.09.15 17:25 Underwater navigation: Researchers believe that fish organize themselves into schools to protect the life of each other. The vibrant circular shape means that they are temporarily more than just a gathering of individuals. Their movement is clearly guided by the behavior of each other thanks to PHOTO: DAVE FLEETHAM / DESIGN PICS / GETTY IMAGES mirror neurons (discovered by brain researcher Giacomo Rizzolatti in 1992) 006_Draeger-112_EN 6 25.09.15 17:43 MOTIVATION FOCUS Strength in Numbers TEAMWORK is ubiquitous. Everyone is a team player T somewhere in this globalized The ambush worked; the spear hit the target. The mammoth world – both professionally was felled despite the icy conditions and the pitch-black night. One and privately. It is what made person lured the creature while another set the trap and someone the dawn of civilization else thrust the spear into its heart. The aim was to assuage their hunger and ensure their survival. This is what successful teamwork possible in the first place. looked like when undertaken by a horde of Stone Age people – These days many things the key factor in the history of human evolution. It appears to be only function through an anthropological constant. Who hasn’t been asked about their ability to work as part of a team during a job interview? Working cooperation and are more with others to achieve goals is probably a skill that most people enjoyable as a result. like to boast about. It is quite simply one of the soft skills. Compa- nies also like to draw on the abilities of teams.