Browsing Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet by Author "Losvik, Ole Kristian"
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Confusion with cerebral perfusion pressure in a literature review of current guidelines and survey of clinical practise.
Rao, Vidar; Klepstad, Pål; Losvik, Ole Kristian; Solheim, Ole (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background: Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is defined as the difference between the mean arterial pressure (MAP) and the intracranial pressure (ICP). However, since patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are usually treated with head elevation, the recorded CPP values depends on the zero level used for calibration of the arterial blood pressure. Although international guidelines suggest ... -
Ketamine for prehospital trauma analgesia in a low-resource rural trauma system: a retrospective comparative study of ketamine and opioid analgesia in a ten-year cohort in Iraq
Losvik, Ole Kristian; Murad, Mudhafar Kareem; Skjerve, Eystein; Husum, Hans (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-09)Background Opioid analgesics are used in most trauma systems, and only a few studies report on the use of ketamine for prehospital analgesia. In a low-cost rural trauma system in Iraq paramedics have been using prehospital ketamine analgesia for ten years. This study aims to evaluate the effects of prehospital analgesia on physiologic trauma severity indicators and compare the effect of ketamine ...