Search for dissertations about: "prehospital"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 62 swedish dissertations containing the word prehospital.

  2. 21. Ischaemic heart disease - risk assessment, diagnosis, and secondary preventive treatment in primary care : with special reference to the relevance of exercise ECG

    Author : Gunnar Nilsson; Eva Samuelsson; Thomas Mooe; Per Wändell; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Exercise ECG; Ischaemic heart disease; Myocardial infarction; Prehospital delay; Primary care; Prognosis; Referral; Statin; Secondary prevention; Arbets-EKG; hjärtinfarkt; ischemisk hjärtsjukdom; sekundärprevention; Family Medicine; allmänmedicin;

    Abstract : Background: Ischaemic heart disease is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to most general practitioners. We sought to identify diagnostic characteristics and prognoses of patients in primary care that received exercise electrocardiography (ECG). We compared the ECG test results with respect to probability of subsequent cardiologist referrals. READ MORE

  4. 22. Optimizing prehospital acute stroke care in the presence of economic constraints

    Author : Nicklas Ennab Vogel; Lars-Åke Levin; Tobias Andersson Granberg; Sofie Pilemalm; David Epstein; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) has become standard of care for acute anterior circulation ischaemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion since the launch of second-generation stent retrievers for clinical use nearly a decade ago. Up until recently, the treatment was exclusively performed at university hospitals in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 23. Prehospital care of severely injured trauma patients : studies on management, assessment, and outcome

    Author : Rebecka Rubenson Wahlin; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Trauma is a public health issue. According to statistics from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, circumstances related to injury are the most common cause of death in the age group 15– 44 years for both genders. Prehospital care is the first link in the chain of life support. READ MORE

  6. 24. Identification of the adult septic patient in the prehospital and emergency department setting

    Author : Ulrika M Wallgren; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Sepsis is one of the most urgent conditions encountered within emergency care but is often difficult to recognize due to its non-specific presentations. One third of the patients lack the classic sign of infection; i.e. fever, and it is often not obvious that the patient suffers from an underlying infection, which is a prerequisite for sepsis. READ MORE

  7. 25. Being secure in insecurity : Aspects of caring in the ambulance service

    Author : Mats Holmberg; Ingegerd Fagerberg; Carin Wahlberg; Kerstin Forslund; Sofia Almerud Österberg; Karolinska Institutet Care Sciences and Society Department of Neurobiology; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; caring science; professional relationships; qualitative methods; prehospital emergency care; ambulance; Care Sciences; vårdvetenskap;

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