Publications by authors named "Christina K Rasmussen"
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on understanding the frequency and experiences of nurse-led rapid response team calls related to end-of-life issues, highlighting the importance of effective end-of-life care in acute settings.
- Conducted at a Danish university hospital, the research involved a retrospective audit of calls from 2011-2019 and interviews with ten rapid response team nurses, revealing that 12% of calls dealt with end-of-life matters, mainly due to respiratory problems.
- The findings suggest that rapid response team nurses often feel uncertain about their roles, face information gaps, and struggle with decision-making timing, emphasizing the need for improved training in end-of-life care and advanced care planning.
Waking Up in Pain: a prospective unselected cohort study of pain in 3702 patients immediately after surgery in the Danish Realm.
Reg Anesth Pain Med
November 2021
Background: Acute and persistent pain after surgery is well described. However, no large-scale studies on immediate postoperative pain in the operating room (OR) exist, hindering potential areas of research to improve clinical outcomes. Thus, we aimed to describe the occurrence and severity of immediate postoperative pain in a large, unselected cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the effect of transcervical endometrial resection on clinical symptoms related to histopathological findings of the junctional zone.
Study Design: This prospective study took place at a university hospital. Premenopausal women suffering from abnormal uterine bleeding and/or pelvic pain and scheduled for transcervical endometrial resection were enrolled (n = 112).
Objectives: To evaluate the intra- and inter-rater agreement for myometrial lesions using Morphologic Uterus Sonographic Assessment terminology.
Methods: Thirteen raters with high (n = 6) or medium experience (n = 7) assessed 30 3-dimensional ultrasound clips with (n = 20) and without (n = 10) benign myometrial lesions. Myometrial lesions were reported as poorly or well defined and then systematically evaluated for the presence of individual features.
Research Question: How diagnostically accurate is two-dimensional (2D-TVS) compared with three-dimensional transvaginal ultrasonography (3D-TVS) in diagnosing adenomyosis of the inner myometrium. What is the most accurate combination of ultrasonographic features?
Design: Premenopausal women (n = 110) scheduled for hysterectomy or transcervical resection of the endomyometrium owing to abnormal uterine bleeding were consecutively enrolled. All participants had real-time 2D-TVS and, later, blinded off-line 3D-TVS to diagnose adenomyosis.
Introduction: Our aim was to correlate junctional zone thickening and irregularity (junctional zone disease) and other ultrasonographic features of adenomyosis with the histopathology of the endometrial-myometrial junctional zone.
Material And Methods: Consecutively enrolled premenopausal women (n = 110) scheduled for hysterectomy or transcervical endometrial resection due to abnormal uterine bleeding and/or menstrual pain, underwent two- and three-dimensional transvaginal ultrasonography on the day of surgery with the observer blinded to previous diagnosis. Junctional zone maximum thickness (JZ ), junctional zone maximum irregularity (JZ ) and ultrasonographic characteristics of adenomyosis were compared with histopathology of the junctional zone defined as (1) adenomyosis of the inner myometrium, ≥2 mm myometrial invasion without contact to the basal endometrium, (2) serrated junctional zone, >3 mm myometrial invasion with contact to the basal endometrium or (3) linear junctional zone, no or marginal myometrial invasion ≤3 mm with contact to the basal endometrium.
Objectives: To assess the inter-rater agreement of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) transvaginal ultrasonography (TVUS) in the diagnosis of adenomyosis.
Methods: This prospective study included premenopausal women (n = 96) with heavy menstrual bleeding, menstrual pain, or both who were scheduled for hysterectomy or transcervical resection of the endometrium. All women underwent real-time 2D TVUS and subsequently offline 3D TVUS, which was blinded to 2D TVUS, by a single expert rater and a single nonexpert rater for the diagnosis of adenomyosis based on standardized pattern recognition and junctional zone measurements.
Objectives: To describe the junctional zone and determine the intraobserver and interobserver repeatability of junctional zone measurements using 3-dimensional (3D) transvaginal sonography in healthy fertile women.
Methods: We examined 82 consecutive women with 3D transvaginal sonography. The maximum and minimum junctional zone thickness was measured in all uterine walls.
Objective: To evaluate how the approximate Young's modulus of the uterine cervix assessed by quantitative sonoelastography in patients undergoing induction of labor is associated with the cervical dilation time and to evaluate the approximate Young's modulus as a predictor of prolonged cervical dilation time.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.