Thyroidectomy for Euthyroid Patients with Hashimoto Disease and Persistent Symptoms: An Observational, Postrandomization Study.

Background: Despite adequate hormone substitution in Hashimoto disease, some patients may have persistent symptoms with a possible autoimmune pathophysiology. A recent randomized trial (RCT) using patient-reported outcome measures as the primary endpoint showed benefit in total thyroidectomy, but at a cost of high complication rates.

Objective: To verify results from the RCT in an observational study including a wider range of patients and explore means of predicting who may benefit from such surgery.

Changing from a two-tiered to a one-tiered trauma team activation protocol: a before-after observational cohort study investigating the clinical impact of undertriage.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of the change in TTA protocol from a two-tier to one-tier, with focus on undertriage and mortality.

Material And Methods: A before-after observational cohort study based on data extracted from the Stavanger University Hospital Trauma registry in the transition period from two-tier to a one-tier TTA protocol over two consecutive 1-year periods (2017-2018). Comparative analysis was done between the two time-periods for descriptive characteristics and outcomes.

Structured and Systematic Team and Procedure Training in Severe Trauma: Going from 'Zero to Hero' for a Time-Critical, Low-Volume Emergency Procedure Over Three Time Periods.

Background: Resuscitative emergency thoracotomy is a potential life-saving procedure but is rarely performed outside of busy trauma centers. Yet the intervention cannot be deferred nor centralized for critically injured patients presenting in extremis. Low-volume experience may be mitigated by structured training.

Performance and outcome evaluation of emergency resuscitative thoracotomy in a Norwegian trauma centre: a population-based consecutive series with survival benefits.

Background: Emergency resuscitative thoracotomy (ERT) is a lifesaving procedure for select indications in severely injured patients. The main body of the literature stem from regions with a high prevalence of penetrating injuries, while data from European institutions remain scarce. We aimed to evaluate a decade of ERT in a Norwegian trauma centre.