Volker Wenzel, M.D., MSc., FERC is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at Medical Campus Lake Constance - Friedrichshafen and Tettnang, Germany; and Courtesy Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States. He has more than 25 years of experience in emergency medicine and authored more than 330 peer-reviewed articles; he also serves as emergency medicine section editor of the specialist journal “Die Anaesthesiologie”.

• Serious traffic accident in fog - The final exam - Buried under concrete slabs - Emergency on the fairground - Inferno on the highway - Choking attack in a nursing home - Collapse during a tennis match - Development stages of a medical doctor - Suicide in quarantine - High-rise building on fire - Emergency cricothyroidotomy - A nearly deadly tea - Abandoned newborn - Accident while shredding - Avalanche burial - Swallow and brake failure - Fall from a tree house - Injury from power line - Hybrid ECMO - Head injury in Afghanistan.