Discrepancies in drug histories at admission to gastrointestinal surgery, internal medicine and geriatric hospital wards in Central Norway: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To compare discrepancies in drug histories among patients acutely admitted to different hospital wards, classify the discrepancies according to their potential clinical impact and identify appropriate selection criteria for patients that should be subject to a detailed drug history at admission.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Two gastrointestinal surgery wards and one geriatric ward at St Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim and two general internal medicine wards at Ålesund Hospital in Ålesund, Norway.

Outcomes among patients treated for gastric adenocarcinoma during the last decade.

Objectives: To evaluate the outcomes among patients treated for gastric adenocarcinoma in a referral hospital, and to identify possible trends during the last decade.

Methods: All patients evaluated for gastric adenocarcinoma during the period 1999-2009 were included.

Results: Of 397 patients, 52% were curatively resected.

Effects of nationwide training of multiprofessional trauma teams in norwegian hospitals.

Background: Norway has 50 trauma hospitals serving a geographically disperse population (4.6 million) and many have low trauma case loads. We showed that personnel find functioning as a team especially challenging, and developed a 1-day training course, arranged locally at each hospital, focused on team training in communication, leadership, and cooperation during simulated patient treatment.

Team-oriented training for damage control surgery in rural trauma: a new paradigm.

Background: The geography of Norway has led to an initiative to train teams from rural hospitals in damage control surgery using a team-oriented approach based on Crew Resource Management. Our aim was to evaluate this approach and its impact on trauma care in rural hospitals across Norway.

Methods: Thirty-eight teams from 21 hospitals participated in 10 courses (during the years 2003-2006) where providers from the same hospital trained as a team.

Pharmacokinetics of intraperitoneally instilled aminophylline, terbutaline and tobramycin in pigs.

Introduction: Venous catheters are sometimes difficult or even impossible to insert and may also be associated with serious complications. This study was carried out to investigate whether intraperitoneal administration of drugs may be an alternative to the intravenous route in patients with limited vascular access.

Materials And Methods: Three drugs commonly in use in clinical practise, aminophylline, terbutaline and tobramycin, were administered to pigs intravenously and intraperitoneally in small volumes.