Health status and quality of life before critical illness: Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study.

Background: Previous findings support the claim intensive care unit (ICU) patients have a higher rate of comorbidities and reduction of health- and functional status compared with the normal population.

Aim: In this prospective observational study, our aim was to determine those health-related factors at the age of 31 years which were associated with a later critical illness among previously un-hospitalized individuals by exploring data obtained from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966).

Methods: NFBC1966 is a Finnish birth cohort, which includes 12,058 live births with expected dates of delivery during 1966.

Long-term mortality after endovascular thrombectomy for stroke.

Objectives: Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) has become the standard treatment for large vessel occlusion (LVO) in acute ischemic stroke. Stroke trials typically report clinical outcome at the three-month time point but there is a lack of studies focusing on the long-term outcome after EVT. The aim of this study is to assess the long-term mortality after EVT for stroke and to determine the factors that are associated with mortality.

Postoperative Complications and Outcome After Emergency Laparotomy: A Retrospective Study.

Background: Emergency laparotomy (EL) is a common urgent surgical procedure with high risk for postoperative complications. Complications impair the prognosis and prolong the hospital stay. This study explored the incidence and distribution of complications and their impact on short-term mortality after EL.

Long-term Outcomes After Emergency Laparotomy: a Retrospective Study.

Background: Emergency laparotomy (EL) is a common surgical operation with poor outcomes. Patients undergoing EL are often frail and have chronic comorbidities, but studies focused on the long-term outcomes after EL are lacking. The aim of the present study was to examine the long-term mortality after EL.

Quality of life after free flap reconstruction for the cancer of the head and neck: Comparison between five-year survivors and non-survivors.

Background: Free flap surgery due to the cancer of the head and neck includes high risk of postoperative complications and a five-year mortality up to 50%. We aimed to study the relation between the quality of life (QoL) reported two years after the operation and the mortality during a next three-year follow-up. We aimed to study the relation between the quality of life (QoL) reported two years after the operation and the mortality during a next three-year follow-up.

Quality of life in head and neck cancer patients at 5 years after free flap reconstruction: a significant decline during the follow-up.

Purpose: Free flap reconstructions following head and neck tumor resection are known to involve more than 50% rate of complications and other adverse events and up to 50% mortality during a 5-year follow-up. We aimed to examine the difference in the long-term quality of life (QoL) between the 2-year and 5-year assessments after free flap surgery for cancer of the head and neck.

Methods: A total of 28 of the 39 eligible patients responded to the survey.

Treatment profile and long-term outcome of intensive care unit-admitted patients with liver cirrhosis or other liver disease in relation to alcohol consumption.

Objective: To examine the impact of alcohol consumption on the treatment profile, mortality and causes of death in intensive care unit (ICU)-admitted patients with liver cirrhosis and other liver disease.

Methods: Data on liver disease and ICU treatment of patients with previously diagnosed liver disease between 2015 and 2017 were retrospectively collected from medical records at Oulu University Hospital, Finland. The median follow-up was 367 days.

Alcohol consumption is associated with a later need for ICU admission: a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966-study.

Background: Alcohol-related problems are common in intensive care unit (ICU) admitted patients. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact of alcohol consumption on the need of intensive care in 19 years follow-up period.

Methods: The study population consists of Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 participants, who responded alcohol-related questions at 31 years of age and Intensive Care Unit (ICU admissions from 1997 to 2016.

Characteristics of subjects with alcoholic cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death.

Objective: To study social and clinical characteristics of victims of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM).

Methods: The study population comprised a subset of Fingesture cohort. All subjects were verified SCD victims determined to have ACM as cause of death in medico-legal autopsy between 1998 and 2017 in Northern Finland.

Treatment Profile and 1-Year Mortality Among Nontraumatic Intensive Care Unit Patients With Alcohol-Related Health Problems.

Background: Long-term excessive use of alcohol leads to severe complications, which often require treatment in an intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of this study was to report on the associations between alcohol-related health problems and treatment profile, as well as 1-year mortality among patients with nontrauma-related ICU admissions.

Methods: Information on the history of alcohol-related health problems or excessive alcohol use and ICU treatment was collected retrospectively from electronic medical records and ICU patient data management systems at Oulu University Hospital, Finland.