<i>Background</i> - Norwegian guideline recommendations on first-line empirical antibiotic prescribing in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are penicillin G/V in monotherapy, or penicillin G in combination with gentamicin (or cefotaxime) in severely ill patients. The aim of this study was to explore how different empirical antibiotic treatments impact on length of hospital ...

A marine social science manifesto is inherently an anticipatory exercise; it looks forward to the ocean and coastal challenges that societies are facing, with which marine social scientists are responsible to engage. The concept of Blue Growth that is mentioned in the manifesto (MMSS 1.1.3) and the related Blue Economy concept are also inherently anticipatory; they deal with a desired future for ...

<i>Background and purpose</i> - The COVID-19 pandemic caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2 has led to a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). Various alternatives to ordinary PPE have been suggested to reduce transmission, which is primarily through droplets and aerosols. For many years orthopedic surgeons have been using surgical helmets as personal protection against blood-borne ...

Forestillingen Gift of Stone ble fremført av kunstneren Katarina Skår Lisa på Varanger Samiske Museum, som del av hennes mastergrad i kunst ved kunsthøyskolen i Oslo, den 6.april 2019. Lisa fikk i voksen alder vite at hun er av samisk slekt. Hun valgte å bruke masterutdanningen og denne performancen som et rom og muligheter for å utforske sine forfedres landskap (i Várjjat i Finnmark), og ta tilbake ...

Bruken av sosiale medier, og dermed også foreldres eksponering av sine barn i ulike situasjoner, har økt de siste årene. Avhandlingen setter søkelys på problematikken som kan oppstå når foreldre deler materiale om sine barn. Tema er foreldres adgang til å publisere materiale om sine barn i sosiale medier. Den nærmere problemstillingen er hvordan foreldres rett til ytringsfrihet skal avveies mot barns ...

Ontogenetic dietary shifts are common in fish and often impact trophically transmitted parasite communities. How parasite species composition and relative abundances change among size classes, and at what rate these changes occur, is rarely examined. Hosts with a broad trophic niche are potentially exposed to a large variety of parasite species. The degree of ontogenetic changes in parasite species ...

<i>Background</i> - Reduction of compensation and improved movement quality indicate recovery after stroke. Since clinical measures alone are often inadequate to distinguish between behavioral recovery and compensation, kinematic analysis of functional tasks has been recommended.<p><p> <i>Objective</i> - To quantify longitudinal changes and residual deficits in movement performance and quality ...

<i>Objectives</i>: Neonatal resuscitation guidelines recommend administering intravenous (IV) adrenaline if bradycardia persists despite adequate ventilation and chest compressions (CC). Rapid IV access is challenging, but little evidence exists for other routes of administration. We compared IV, endotracheal (ET), and intranasal routes for adrenaline administration during resuscitation of asphyxiated ...

<i>Aim</i> - To provide lifeworld insights into experiences of adult children with caring responsibility for an 80+‐year‐old chronically ill parent with frailty.<p><p> <i>Background</i> - Informal care is common in Nordic welfare countries; however, little is known about adult children's experience of caring responsibility in this setting.<p><p> <i>Design</i> - A phenomenological–hermeneutic ...

Chronic pain patients constitute a large and heterogeneous patient group and it is important to build tools and methods that can identify efficient treatment options for each individual patient. It is estimated that 20-30% of the population has suffered from chronic pain and this imposes enormous costs on society and the national welfare programs. The research project Chronic Pain addresses the ...