Longitudinal effects of adjuvant chemotherapy and lymph node staging on patient-reported outcomes in endometrial cancer survivors: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Most patients with endometrial cancer with localized disease are effectively treated and survive for a long time. The primary treatment is hysterectomy, to which surgical staging procedures may be added to assess the need for adjuvant therapy. Longitudinal data on patient-reported outcomes comparing different levels of primary treatment are lacking, especially when adjuvant radiotherapy is omitted.

Gas Embolism During Hysteroscopic Surgery?: Three Cases and a Literature Review.

During a period of 1 month, 3 episodes of probable or actual venous air embolism occurred during hysteroscopic surgery. All patients developed the same symptoms of ventilatory and hemodynamic decompensation, beginning with a reduction in end-tidal carbon dioxide, arterial desaturation, and cyanosis on the upper trunk, and rapidly progressed to hypotension and 2 cardiac arrests. While entrainment of some air is common during hysteroscopy, life-threatening embolism is a rare but serious complication for which an anesthetist needs to be vigilant and prepared.

Is it possible to detect malposition of the vertex at an early stage in labour? A case-control study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate if there are clinical signs which allow detection of malposition of the vertex on admission to the delivery unit, or when crossing the action line on the partogram.

Study Design: Case-control study from 2007 to 2010 conducted on the delivery unit of Nordland Hospital, Bodø. Labours with malposition of the vertex (n = 171) were compared with a group with normal vertex presentation (n = 165).

Claims for compensation after alleged birth asphyxia: a nationwide study covering 15 years.

Objective: To analyze compensation claims with neurological sequela or death following alleged birth asphyxia.

Design: A cohort study.

Setting: A nationwide study in Norway.

A nationwide descriptive study of obstetric claims for compensation in Norway.

Objective: To describe causes of substandard care in obstetric compensation claims.

Design And Setting: A nationwide descriptive study in Norway.

Population: All obstetric patients who believed themselves inflicted with injuries by the Health Service and applying for compensation.

[Delivery of a breech presentation].

Background: Vaginal delivery in breech presentation is controversial, but in Norway vaginal delivery is recommended to certain groups of women. We have examined maternal and neonatal outcome at our hospital by mode of delivery to test whether our results support the recommendation.

Material And Methods: We analyzed data from 385 women who delivered singleton breech fetuses after 34 weeks of gestation in the 10-year period 1997 - 2006 in Nordlandssykehuset, Bodø.