DOCTORAL THESIS. When bedbound intensive care patients are moved within a hospital, the single most common risk factor is nonfunctioning technology and equipment. These transfers, a well-known moment of risk, have been studied in a University of Gothenburg thesis. Moving critically ill patients within a hospital, for investigations and treatments, always entails risks. Today, however, the majority of these patients are in need of transport to be X-rayed or undergo…
Patients who had been waiting in operation queue died earlier
DOCTORAL THESIS. Early surgery improved both outcome and survival in patients with the neurological condition hydrocephalus, while mortality was higher in those who had to wait, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg. These results add to pressure on efforts to keep waiting lists for surgery short. Hydrocephalus (idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, iNPH) is a treatable neurological condition that causes gait problems, cognitive impairment or dementia, and incontinence.…