Influence of girth strap placement and panel flocking material on the saddle pressure pattern during riding of horses.

Reasons For Performing Study: Saddle fit is well recognised as an important factor for the health and performance of riding horses. However, only few studies have addressed general effects of different saddle construction details within a group of horses.

Objective: To assess the influence of girth strap placement, traditional vs.

[A "good death" needs to be discussed. A study of patients with acute myeloid leukemia demonstrates the value of palliative care].

The incidence of AML in Sweden is 5.4/100,000, i.e.

The final phase in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). A study on bleeding, infection and pain.

To increase the knowledge of the final phase of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) a retrospective review of the medical and nursing records of 106 adult patients with AML who had died in 1995-1997 was made. A total of 27 patients were treated with curative intent at the time of death and 79 patients were prescribed palliative care. From the documentation, an evaluation of the frequency and severity of bleeding and pain episodes was made during their last week in life, and the occurrence of infection criteria was studied.

Long-term follow-up of patients >or=60 yr old with acute myeloid leukaemia treated with intensive chemotherapy.

It is still controversial how to treat elderly patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), and results have been poor with most regimens. We report the long-term results of a randomised study performed by the Leukaemia Group of Middle Sweden during 1984-88 comparing two intensive chemotherapeutic drug combinations. Ninety patients >or=60-yr old with untreated AML were randomly allocated to treatment with daunorubicin, cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), and thioguanine (TAD) (43 patients) or a combination in which aclarubicin was substituted for daunorubicin (TAA) (47 patients).

The final phase in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML): a study of cause of death, place of death and type of care during the last week of life.

The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge of the final phase in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a period which entails many complex medical and psychosocial decisions. Data on cause and place of death were gathered through a retrospective review of medical and nursing records of 106 patients with AML who had died during 1995-1997. We focused on the actual phase of the disease and to what extent the patients were prescribed palliative care.