Three waves of COVID-19 in a Norwegian local hospital.

Background: The objective of this article is to summarise the course of illness and treatment for patients with COVID-19 admitted to Bærum Hospital since the start of the pandemic.

Material And Method: We present data from a prospective observational study with the aim of systematising knowledge about patients admitted because of COVID-19. All patients admitted to Bærum Hospital up to and including 28 June 2021 were included.

Increased perinatal survival and improved ventilation skills over a five-year period: An observational study.

Background And Aim: The Helping Babies Breathe program gave major reductions in perinatal mortality in Tanzania from 2009 to 2012. We aimed to study whether this effect was sustained, and whether resuscitation skills changed with continued frequent training.

Methods: We analysed prospective data covering all births (n = 19,571) at Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Tanzania from July 2013 -June 2018.

Positive End-Expiratory Pressure in Newborn Resuscitation Around Term: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: International guidelines for resuscitation recommend using positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during ventilation of preterm newborns. Reliable PEEP-valves for self-inflating bags have been lacking, and effects of PEEP during resuscitation of term newborns are insufficiently studied. The objective was to determine if adding a new PEEP valve to the bag-mask during resuscitation of term and near-term newborns could improve heart rate response.

[Complications and mortality among patients hospitalised with COVID-19].

Background: The course of disease, complications and hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19 admitted to Norwegian hospitals has not been widely described. The purpose of this study was to survey patients with COVID-19 admitted to a local hospital.

Material And Method: The data were retrieved from a prospective observational study of all patients admitted with COVID-19 to Bærum Hospital since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.

Predictors for expired CO in neonatal bag-mask ventilation at birth: observational study.

Background: Expired carbon dioxide (ECO) indicates degree of lung aeration immediately after birth. Favourable ventilation techniques may be associated with higher ECO and a faster increase. Clinical condition will however also affect measured values.

Born not breathing: A randomised trial comparing two self-inflating bag-masks during newborn resuscitation in Tanzania.

Aims: Effective ventilation is crucial to save non-breathing newborns. We compared standard equipment for newborn resuscitation to a new Upright bag, in an area with high neonatal mortality.

Methods: Newborns requiring resuscitation at Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania, were ventilated with 230ml standard or 320ml Upright bag-mask by weekly non-blinded block randomisation.

Neonatal ventilation with a manikin model and two novel PEEP valves without an external gas source.

Objective: Positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) is beneficial when ventilating preterm newborns. The aim was to study whether inexperienced providers were able to generate PEEP during simulated neonatal ventilation, using two novel prototype PEEP valves, on a self-inflating bag without an external gas source.

Design: Forty-six nursing students in Tanzania were trained in ventilation with a new Laerdal Upright resuscitator and mask on a NeoNatalie manikin with a newborn resuscitation monitor.

Randomised comparison of two neonatal resuscitation bags in manikin ventilation.

Objective: To compare ventilation properties and user preference of a new upright neonatal resuscitator developed for easier cleaning, reduced complexity, and possibly improved ventilation properties, with the standard Laerdal neonatal resuscitator.

Design: Eighty-seven Tanzanian and Norwegian nursing and medical students without prior knowledge of newborn resuscitation were briefly trained in bag-mask ventilation. The two resuscitators were used in random order on a manikin connected to a test lung with normal or low lung compliance.

High incidence of subcutaneous emphysema in children in a Somali refugee cAMP during measles outbreak.

During an outbreak of measles in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, 9 patients (age range 4 months to 18 years) were diagnosed with subcutaneous emphysema. Incidence of this rare complication of measles in this refugee camp was higher than previously reported. We hypothesize that the high incidence is most likely related to poor physical state of the refugee population with high rates of malnutrition.