Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Oct 1991
[Cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts at Ullevål hospital during January 1989-July 1990].
During the period January 1989 to July 1990, 68 in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitations were attempted in 65 patients at Ullevål Hospital. The total number of deaths during the same period was 2,166. 21 patients survived initially (32%). ⋯ Six patients were alive at follow-up 13-25 months after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. No differences in survival were found between males and females, or between patients under and over 70 years of age.
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Emergency room thoracotomy was performed in 22 cases. 19 of the patients were admitted following injury. Four of the injured patients survived. Two of the survivors had penetrating injury above the diaphragm, one had penetrating injury below the diaphragm. ⋯ There was no difference between the group of patients that survived and the group that died as regards probability of survival estimated by the TRISS method, trauma score and injury severity score. Internal heart compression was performed in nine cases. Emergency room thoracotomy is a life-saving procedure in critically unstable patients.
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This study included 1,416 graduates from the four medical schools in Norway, during the period 1978-81. The purpose was to determine which factors potentially influence choice of specialty. ⋯ Female physicians took no more time than their male colleagues did to become specialists. It is also concluded that the quality of the undergraduate teaching of the different specialties had little or no impact on future choice of career.