Medicine – Page 8 – Ardavan Khoshnood

Overcrowding at the Emergency Department – A Swedish Definition is Needed [Swedish]

17 April 201214 October 2021

Overcrowding at the emergency department impairs the quality of care and patient safety. A standardized definition of the degree of burden is needed, linked to support for decisions on measures.

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Let’s scrap the mandatory medical training [Swedish]

2 April 201214 October 2021

The mandatory medical training for medical students after their education, should be scraped.

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An artificial neural network to safely reduce the number of ambulance ECGs transmitted for physician assessment in a system with prehospital detection of ST elevation myocardial infarction

1 February 201214 October 2021

Background Pre-hospital electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission to an expert for interpretation and triage reduces time to acute percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with ST elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). In order to detect all STEMI patients, the ECG should be transmitted in all cases of suspected acute cardiac ischemia. The aim of this study was to…

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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor [Swedish]

1 January 201214 October 2021

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) belongs to the low-frequency gastrointestinal tumors. Most hospitals, however, have a few cases of patients with GIST each year. The therapy is often conducted by or in consultation with a regional sarcoma team.

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Circadian presentation patterns and ECGs of men and women with suspected acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department

16 October 200814 October 2021

Presentation patterns were quite similar for men and women with a large likelihood of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) for those presenting in the morning. This may be related to changes in the thrombolytic activity, platelet aggregability and sympathetic system activation. In patients with ECG signs of ST elevation ACS, the likelihood for ACS was much…