Publications by authors named "Gunhild Kjaergaard-Andersen"
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- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a major global health issue, necessitating effective vascular access for drug administration during resuscitation.
- A clinical trial comparing intraosseous and intravenous methods found that both had similar effectiveness for restoring circulation, with around 30% of patients in each group succeeding.
- At 30 days post-arrest, survival rates and favorable neurologic outcomes also showed no significant differences between the two methods, indicating both approaches are equally viable.
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- The increase in life expectancy and health issues among older patients leads to more ICU admissions, risking their physical and cognitive functions, which can permanently affect their quality of life (QoL).
- This scoping review seeks to identify key variables related to health outcomes and understand what matters for the QoL of frail elderly patients after ICU discharge.
- The review will follow Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines, including a thorough search of relevant studies from 2013 to 2023, with careful data extraction and analysis to present the findings in both narrative and table forms, ultimately aiming for publication in a scientific journal.
Objective: Burnout and mental illness are frequent among healthcare professionals, leading to increased sick leave. Simulation-based team training has been shown to improve job satisfaction and mental health among healthcare professionals. This study seeks to investigate the relationship between simulation-based team training and sick leave.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A growing body of evidence supports the existence of an association between patient safety culture (PSC) and patient outcomes. PSC refers to shared perceptions and attitudes towards norms, policies and procedures related to patient safety. Existing literature shows that PSC varies among health professionals depending on their specific profession and specialty.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aimed to investigate staff's perceptions of patient safety culture (PSC) in two Danish hospitals before and after an in situ simulation intervention.
Design: A repeated cross-sectional intervention study.
Setting: Two Danish hospitals.
Objective: To explore the impact of in situ simulation training in regard to identification of latent safety threats and participant experiences.
Design: A prospective study including quantitative and qualitative measures.
Setting: A Danish hospital shifted from simulation training in centers outside the hospital to training where simulation was conducted where the situations normally took place and with the normal working teams.
Simulation-based training in acute medical conditions is mandatory for Danish interns. A new concept for improving the effect of this training has been evaluated at our Center for Medical Simulation. By introducing an exercise in prioritizing patients as a supplement to simulation-based training we have gained a higher degree of self-reported learning compared to observing other participants and participating in the debriefing.
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